Women Are Already Running Frontier AI. They Just Need to Decide Who For.

TL;DR

The AI adoption gap has closed, with women's usage nearly matching men's, but this masks a deeper 'authorship gap'.
Women are disproportionately placed in leadership roles during crises ('glass cliff'), but are also quietly running successful AI companies like Anthropic during periods of growth.
The article uses historical and mythological frameworks (chess, orisha) to illustrate how women's power has been present but often unrecognized or confined.
True AI sovereignty involves women defining their own objectives and values for AI, not just adopting tools or skills within existing male-dominated narratives.
The 'caring economy' and women's unacknowledged cognitive labor are foundational to AI, yet excluded from traditional economic measures.
The current AI industry is dominated by a 'single story' of the lone male genius, which needs to be challenged by recognizing the 'multitudes' of contributors.
Women are urged to claim their authorship, move beyond performing predefined roles, and build AI that serves broader humanistic goals, not just corporate or competitive ones.
The power lies not in owning compute, models, or data, but in owning one's mind and choosing one's own objectives.