Either way, the men go in and the women want out. How many? It depends on how you define “working in AI.” About 71 percent of “AI-skilled workers,” according to one report, are men, and there are roughly 35,000 open AI roles in the US at any given moment. Broaden that to include investors and you’re adding thousands more. Broaden it further to include every man who has mentioned to his wife that he is “looking at some opportunities in the space”—and we’re in the millions.

Why is she so sweaty to make this a gendered thing? Women fall in love with chatbots every day.

There was nearly a riot when OpenAI made its ChatGPT more “cold” and “distant” from women who had fallen in love with it.