You keep hearing that AI is coming for everyone's job. One giant wave, every industry, all at once. That story is wrong, and the truth is more uncomfortable. AI is not wiping out work across the board. It is quietly sorting who keeps a seat, by task, by age, by skill level. And women are sitting in the exact seats it hits first. Here is what the sort is really doing, why it lands harder on women, and how to climb toward a seat that AI cannot take out from under you.

A reader asked what I think about the EU AI Act, the law putting real penalties on AI that discriminates in hiring and promotions. Then I picked up Careless People and realized the law and the book were telling the exact same story about who gets broken when companies move fast.

One morning in a Boston hotel room, I woke up to fifty furious messages from some of the smartest women I know. A prompt had been typed into ChatGPT. The images that came back were not them. They were frumpy white men with beards. That was the morning The AI Gap stopped being an idea and became a book