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Episode 172: Scared and Curious: What Even Is AI and Why I Can't Look Away
This is the one Erin has been building toward for a while. Episode 172 kicks off a new series "AI for the Rest of Us" and it starts in the tension between fear and curiosity, between wanting to look away and knowing we can't. This is a messy, honest, first-person episode about what AI actually is, why the gender gap in AI adoption matters, and how a concept called the "pessimism aversion trap" might be the thing quietly keeping us stuck.
No tech background required. No conclusions forced. Just a real conversation (always out loud and in process) from someone figuring it out alongside you.
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