When I introduced my team of AI agents, the first question everyone asked was about the names. So let me explain, because the choice was not an accident.
The simple reason is memory. I run eight agents, and if I had named one of them Alex with no superstar in mind, I would forget by Tuesday whether Alex was my copywriter or my CFO. Naming Taylor after Taylor Swift, who writes the words, and Ada after Ada Lovelace, who runs the numbers, means I never have to think twice. The name tells me the job.
The real reason is bigger than that. We need more women building in AI, and right now we are not showing up in the numbers.
Here is what I see every day. When I tell people they need to be working with AI, playing with it, getting fluent in it, the only people who push back are women. Women are the ones who tell me they have ethical and moral problems with it. Women are the ones who say that using AI feels like cheating on their own work. Women raise the environmental cost, the water it takes to cool the data centers, the toll those centers take on real communities. Women bring up privacy, and what a model might do with their financial records or their health history or their business.
I want to be clear: these women are not wrong. Every one of those concerns is valid. I have them too.
But you know who never brings me a single one of these complaints? Men.
So ask the obvious next question. Who is the majority of the people training these models every single day? Men. If women, people of color, and people from low-income backgrounds keep sitting this one out, the models will never learn the things that matter to more than half the population. Garbage in, garbage out, as I have always said. Except the garbage here is the absence of our voices.
Think about where this goes. These systems are moving toward making real decisions, with less and less human hand-holding, about our health care and our kids' education and the economy we all live in. If the data they learn from only ever carried one kind of voice, then every decision they make later will be shaped by one kind of perspective. That is not an abstract worry. That is the architecture being poured right now, while we argue about whether to participate.
I have watched the backlash play out online, and the part that stings is that it is mostly women coming for other women. In April 2026, Reese Witherspoon posted that the AI revolution had begun and urged women to learn the technology. She backed it with a real number: the jobs women hold are three times more likely to be automated by AI, yet women are using AI at a rate 25% lower than men. The pushback was fast. She was called tone-deaf and out of touch, and accused of being paid to promote it. Her answer was simple. "To be clear, no one is paying me to talk about this. I'm just a curious human." A woman with a megaphone told other women to claim a seat, and she got punished for it. (Variety)
So here is my message, and I am not going to soften it. This is not a debate anymore. AI is here. If you opt out, you will be left behind, and worse, the tools being built to run your life will have been built without you in the room. They will never have learned your perspective, which means they will never work as well for you as they could have.
Naming my cabinet after Harriet Tubman, Shonda Rhimes, Ada Lovelace, and the rest is a small act. I know that. But every time I open my laptop and put these women to work, I am reminding myself who this technology should be built for, and by.
Next, I will show you exactly what this looks like in practice, starting with the one place women cannot afford to hand the keys to someone else: our own health.
For those of you warming up in the comments, yes, I obviously used AI to help me write this. That's my whole point: the ideas are mine, drawn from a five-page free-flowing brain dump and from real conversations I've had with people at all ends of the AI knowledge spectrum. AI helped me organize, tighten, and get the words on the page faster than I could on my own. I have been telling you throughout this series that AI is not here to replace you, it is here to make you more efficient. This article is the proof.