Meet the Sad Wives of AI

Although things are changing, some research shows that women are close 20 percent less than men using generative AI. Rodgers said: “It’s not men and women, it’s the jobs women do.” Women are disproportionately represented in jobs – education, health care, social services – that currently use little AI. The result can be an additional distraction. Over time, it means a decrease in the income of the boom, the main responsibility of the domestic work that it produces.

And what happens if it doesn’t go well for men? Many, if not most, will not make it in AI, a lucrative but volatile business. Rodgers said: “When the job ends, it brings depression. “In the family, if one person is mentally ill due to job loss or uncertainty, the other person naturally becomes the supporter.” The strange thing, for some grieving women, is that the moment their husband leaves AI, whether by choice or by force, there is no relief. Now he is home. Around. Now he is managing that again.

It was close the end of my treatment session. I was going through 50 minutes of emotional stress, hormonal changes, whatever my post-natal depression might have been and it took longer than I expected to get back into my jeans. Then my doctor interrupted me and asked me what else my friend did at work. “Oh,” I said. “Well, he’s the head of AI at his company.”

What he said next I had to write down. His customers, he allowed, were almost always women – women whose husbands, often, lived in close proximity to AI in some way. And it affects their relationship. Compulsory saving means zero limits at home. The most masculine all power. And constant fighting, which involves something big than them. He has gone to another world, the world of knowledge and signs and epiphanies, while he is firmly in this one.

Anger builds in silence. Many of these sad women, he added, turned down career opportunities in AI themselves. Not because they were not qualified, but because it is difficult to raise children and interfere with development at the same time.

Princess Diana was known to have three people in her marriage. For AI sad women, the third is a chatbot. I talked to a few other family doctors, and they agreed with mine: The situation is getting worse. “That’s a lot of tech women,” said one with a sigh. “More women in technology.”

The tiktok meme has been around lately: young women on their laptops or creating their designs, they wrote something like, “Working hard for my guy to start an AI project that makes $30K a month.” The comment section represents the agreement: “I’m tired.” “Yas Queen.” “So he can have ‘founder’ in his bio.” I tried to reach some of these women. Not a bit.

I must also say that I had no trouble talking to the real men of this story. I’m sick of hearing from AI men. Most of us are. They have podcasts and debates on the Senate and magazine profile and maybe a group chat with the president. He was told – and I can’t stress this enough –enough.