100 Women in AI

Cheraé Robinson

The future of AI is human and women-led. Host Cheraé Robinson sits down with the world's leading women founders, researchers, operators, and technologists from the 100 Women in AI list to talk about the work behind the headlines, from what they're building that most people haven't seen yet to the challenges and opportunities for women in this era, and what they see coming that the rest of us should be paying attention to. New episodes every Wednesday.

Episodes

  1. 4d ago

    Kakul Srivastava: AI Should Pay the Artists It Learns From

    Kakul Srivastava believes AI in music has to start by paying the artists it learns from. As CEO of Splice, she’s made sure real artists are compensated for the material behind every AI tool the company builds and, where possible, for what those tools create, too. It’s a choice that grew out of a career spent building the tools people reach for when they’re chasing a creative dream, from Flickr to Adobe Creative Cloud, and seeing how complicated software can feel like a door slammed in someone’s face. In this conversation, Cheraé Robinson talks with Kakul about the mentor who convinced her to start her first company while raising two young kids, and how she walked into the music industry as an outsider with plenty of imposter syndrome and made that perspective her advantage. She also shares how Splice decides where AI belongs in creative work, and why the more she uses AI, the more she protects time for deep thinking with a pen and paper. Chapters  (00:00) Why creative tools should open doors (00:50) Meet Kakul Srivastava (01:28) Coming to the US and the plan to become a doctor (05:24) Systems thinking and learning to trust intuition (09:41) Starting Tomfoolery as a young mom (14:42) Everyone is figuring it out as they go (17:03) How AI makes her more aware of how she thinks (19:09) What an acquisition taught her (21:03) A career built around creative tools (27:34) Choosing Splice (30:58) Stepping in as CEO after the founders (33:12) Leading a music company through the AI transition (36:28) Deciding where AI belongs in creative work (41:16) Earning the industry's trust as an outsider (43:37) Advice for creators (45:08) The woman who inspires her Resources mentioned Splice: https://splice.comSpitfire Audio: https://www.spitfireaudio.comNitzan Hermon: https://nitzan.linkPeople mentioned Kakul Srivastava, Steve Martocci, Matt Aimonetti, Marissa Mayer, Demis Hassabis, Nitzan Hermon About the show 100 Women in AI features conversations with the honorees of the 100 Women in AI list from Flybridge and XFactor Ventures. If this episode moved you, follow the show so you don't miss the next one, and leave a rating or review to help more people find these stories. Learn more at www.100womeninai.com and follow along at instagram.com/100womeninai. Flybridge is an investor in Splice.

    Kakul Srivastava: AI Should Pay the Artists It Learns From

  2. Nov 4

    Grace Brown: Building a Robot With Social Intelligence for Care

    During Melbourne’s long COVID lockdowns, Grace Brown built a robot for herself. She didn’t want it to do her dishes or laundry. She wanted something that would ask how her day was going and give her a hug. That robot became Abi, a playful, child-sized companion now working in more than 20 elder care homes, where she speaks up to 90 languages and has helped residents reconnect after months of isolation. In this conversation, Cheraé Robinson talks with the founder and CEO of Andromeda about why she set out to prove robotics doesn’t have to be aggressively masculine, and why she believes social intelligence will be core infrastructure for every robot that works alongside people. Grace also opens up about making payroll with her own money in the early days, and the moments with residents and their families that keep her building. Chapters (00:00) What the future of humanoid robots could look like (00:09) Meet Grace Brown (01:26) Building Abi to get through lockdown loneliness (02:19) Why touch matters in human connection (04:18) The moment Abi first felt alive (05:21) From high school Arduinos to mechatronics (07:42) Why robotics doesn’t have to be aggressively masculine (09:29) Building the robots she actually wants in her life (11:13) Why aged care came first (13:03) The hardest part is the psychology (14:43) Abi and the Chinese poetry (17:30) Real impact at 1% of the journey (18:56) Social intelligence as core infrastructure (21:03) When she thought it might not work (22:44) A mission-driven team (24:23) How soon humanoid robots will arrive (26:44) A constellation of care across generations (29:31) What will feel obvious in ten years (31:13) The woman who inspires her Resources mentioned Andromeda: https://www.andromedarobotics.aiPeople mentioned Grace Brown, Jenn, Andromeda’s COO About the show 100 Women in AI features conversations with the honorees of the 100 Women in AI list from Flybridge and XFactor Ventures. If this episode moved you, follow the show so you don’t miss the next one, and leave a rating or review to help more people find these stories. Learn more at www.100womeninai.com and follow along at instagram.com/100womeninai.

    Grace Brown: Building a Robot With Social Intelligence for Care

  3. Oct 29

    Regina Barzilay: Turning Breast Cancer Into a Mission for AI in Medicine

    When MIT professor Regina Barzilay was diagnosed with breast cancer, she discovered that almost none of the AI she’d spent her career building was being used to care for patients like her. At the height of her career in natural language processing, she walked away to start over in a field with no funding, no name, and every grant application rejected. In this conversation, Cheraé Robinson talks with Regina about watching AI go from a field built on grammar rules to the breakthroughs we see today, the decade it took to bring her breast cancer prediction model Mirai into national screening guidelines and her own hospital, and the new tools she’s building to help patients with lung cancer and metastatic disease. She also opens up about failure, patience, and learning to be gentler with herself, and why the real stories behind breakthroughs matter more than the polished ones. Chapters  (00:00) Can AI see cancer before it appears? (00:25) Meet Regina Barzilay (01:30) Studying language processing before ChatGPT (05:43) Why even experts can’t predict where AI goes next (07:06) A breast cancer diagnosis and a change of direction (11:26) Starting over with no funding and no name in the field (17:45) Fighting for access to hospital data (22:23) The idea behind Mirai (24:39) Getting Mirai into national cancer screening guidelines (26:13) Why medicine moves slower than computer science (29:03) Sybil and the changing face of lung cancer (31:49) Using AI to personalize treatment for metastatic cancer (37:28) Failure, patience and being gentle with yourself (40:17) The women who inspire her Resources mentioned MIT Jameel Clinic: https://jclinic.mit.eduMirai breast cancer risk model (open source): https://github.com/yala/MiraiSybil lung cancer risk model: https://github.com/reginabarzilaygroup/SybilNCCN cancer screening guidelines: https://www.nccn.orgARPA-H: https://arpa-h.govPeople mentioned Regina Barzilay, Adam Yala, Klavs Jensen, Dr. Lecia Sequist, Linda Griffith, Dina Katabi About the show 100 Women in AI features conversations with the honorees of the 100 Women in AI list from Flybridge and XFactor Ventures. If this episode moved you, follow the show and leave a rating or review to help more people find these stories. Learn more at www.100womeninai.com and follow along at instagram.com/100womeninai.

    Regina Barzilay: Turning Breast Cancer Into a Mission for AI in Medicine

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The future of AI is human and women-led. Host Cheraé Robinson sits down with the world's leading women founders, researchers, operators, and technologists from the 100 Women in AI list to talk about the work behind the headlines, from what they're building that most people haven't seen yet to the challenges and opportunities for women in this era, and what they see coming that the rest of us should be paying attention to. New episodes every Wednesday.

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  • Creator
    Cheraé Robinson
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    4
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Flybridge
  • Show Website
    100 Women in AI

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