Zoe Schiffer

But the thing about data centers is not only do they spike the water bills of the people who live close by, energy bill, all of that, but even if they create a certain amount of jobs at the beginning, and many of those jobs are being brought in from other states, like you don't need that many people to run a data center once it's up.

So beyond the ever-increasing spending on AI, the latest releases, the suspected IPOs, yada, yada, there is also a more personal and strange side effect to the AI boom right now, what it is doing to family dynamics.

particularly what it's doing to the wives of men who work in AI or would like to be working in AI.

Specifically, the fact that these women are completely sick and tired of the whole damn thing.

Wired contributor Alessandra Ram reported on how AI has taken over some women's home lives, and she's joining us now to talk about that piece.

Hi, everyone.

I'm excited to chat with you.

Hello.

Hey, so happy you're here.

I absolutely loved this piece.

I laughed out loud multiple times.

You refer to women who are married to AI-pilled men as the, quote, sad wives of AI, and you include yourself in that group.

So what do you all have in common?

What do you share?

And when did you first realize that this was not just something you were experiencing in your personal life, but was actually a pattern?

Yeah.

I loved how you framed it in the article of like, we both have a baby to take care of.

Mine is our literal human child and his is an AI tool.

Right.

That was the two-part thing that I was thinking about when I was reading it, which is on one level, there are people who are just so excited about the technological innovations and just really nerd out on the releases, like you said.