AI is keeping us on our toes.

I personally find it abhorrent that AI technology has been released without any of the required societal changes in place to ensure humans don’t suffer. Many of us saw this coming; it just came faster than any of us imagined.

So now, after only a couple of years of people being bewitched by LLMs, image and video generators, we are seeing mass redundancies and the complete annihilation of entry-level jobs due to AI.

This is all being led by Silicon Valley's mantra of "move fast and break things," which means we all have to move at the speed of light to fix what they are wrecking. Especially those of us who have been around since the birth of the personal computer, we’ve seen how technology has enhanced our lives and what it’s taken away from the world.

We saw software come in, accompanied by 8-bit computer games that were more addictive than crack but were so alluring and new and revolutionary we didn’t ask questions. I wish we had.

We saw social media arrive. In 2000, Friends Reunited brought old school friends together and made the divorce rate skyrocket. I wish they’d asked me. I discovered in 2022 that I was 'the one that got away' to about ten boys at my school, most of whom I barely even remembered. But the figures proving it didn’t come out for another three years.

And we all happily handed over all the information about our lives to Facebook in 2004 without batting an eyelid until the Cambridge Analytica scandal erupted in 2018, when the data of millions of Facebook users was harvested without their consent and used for targeted political ads, including the 2016 presidential election in the States.

Now the President who won that election is presiding over the new world of AI led by billionaires playing 5D chess, or, as us matriarchs like to call it — good old-fashioned intuition.

Currently, we are all in the midst of a battle against an invisible force, but we have one major advantage: human creativity will always be leaps and bounds ahead of the machines, and a human blessed with the gift of pattern recognition will spot real-world effects quicker than a machine looking at noughts and zeros.

So in June, when the women (and men in DEI) started noticing a cataclysmic drop in reach, we all started shouting, and a number of us started experiments to work out why. When we posted our findings, the comments were overwhelmingly filled with women and the global majority sharing their experiences and data, with (mostly) men, and LinkedIn itself, citing articles from 2024 to explain there was no bias. Professional researchers claimed our findings were unscientific. Babe, things are moving so fast we can fix this before you can even define your methodology.

What’s more, you are never going to get the answers you want. But we can all see results if we put in the effort. Because if you believe the machines are in control, you’ve given up on humanity without even lifting a finger.

The first thing we need to understand is that the people who are building and proliferating tech really believe they are building a better world for all of us. Unfortunately, the people who have funded them are only out for themselves and their ilk. And you know what? All of them think they are the 'good guys.'

The well-recorded proliferation of young males in the AI development teams means it’s well within the realms of possibility that they programmed their bias and lack of life experience into the source code. The same code that instructs the AI to learn from humans. We can’t lose.

The algorithm will have definitely spotted the wave of patterns and know exactly what is being said. LinkedIn employees who have been tagged relentlessly will be asking questions. I can assure you this is being treated as a matter of urgency, but nobody will ever admit there’s bias. They’ll just quietly fix it and say, "Told you there was no bias!"

About a year ago, a wise matriarch told me, "AI is the worst it will ever be." It's exponentially better than any of us could have imagined it a year ago. Imagine what it’s going to look like next year; current projections suggest the sum total of human knowledge is doubling every 12-18 months. Advances in AI and quantum computing will push this rate even faster, possibly to days or hours.

When I was born in the 60s, the sum total of human knowledge doubled every 25 years. This is why modern matriarchs need to be front and centre when we are building a new world. We know how quickly the world turns.

Matriarchs like 68-year-old Linda Hamilton, who played Sarah Connor. There can be no doubt Terminator would have been a very different movie if everyone had listened to a matriarch. Rather than being a cautionary tale of humanity’s reckless development of AI, it would have shown the power of foresight, collaboration, and ethical leadership, preventing the rise of Skynet before it could destroy the world. The movie would have been a tale of unity and responsibility instead of the endless fight for survival.

Isn’t that the real life we’d all like to see?

If you would like to catch up on the experiments the 7th Tribe have been conducting so far you can catch up here. £10 for the two webinars with the decks to download.

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