In 2022, Sreyna Rath asked ChatGPT what to say to her boss about her career. It told her to mention that she was good at baking and multitasking - even though it knew she was a software engineer with a computer science degree. That moment sent her down a rabbit hole, and eventually to founding Jaimee, an AI companion built specifically for women.
In this episode we talk about why AI keeps handing our own biases back to us, why women make up only about twenty per cent of Australia’s highly technical workforce (according to the Tech Council of Australia), and what changes when the people building AI actually reflect the people using it.
In This Episode We Cover
- The career advice ChatGPT gave a female software engineer - and the rabbit hole it started
- Why most AI companions are built for men, and the different thing Sreyna set out to build for women
- The design decision behind Jaimee that most companion apps get badly wrong
- What “AI is a mirror, not a crystal ball” actually means - and why that should worry us more than sentient robots
- The AI hiring tool that taught itself to penalise the word “women” - and what it tells us about our own data
- The one habit Sreyna uses on every AI output to stop it reinforcing its own bias
About the Podcast:
The AI Your Business Podcast, hosted by Kim Fernandez, helps established business owners, founders, and service providers understand how to adopt AI in a practical, human-centric way, and be inspired by ways AI is being used to solve real world problems - through real-world case studies, stories, and strategies.
Links
Sreyna Rath - Founder & CEO, Jaimee AI
- Sreyna Rath on LinkedIn
- JaimeeAI on Linkedin
- Jaimee AI (available on the App Store and Google Play - search “Jaimee AI”): https://jaimee.ai
Kim Fernandez / AI Collab
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