Headline : Marissa Mayer: I Am Not a Feminist. I Am Not Neurodivergent. I Am a Software Girl

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Marissa Mayer didn’t say AI is Death, destroyer of worlds or even AI needs ethical guardrails.

Instead, she said it’s the sun—life-giving, bright, shiny, endlessly giving. Thus, the former Google engineer and CEO of Yahoo, who has worked on artificial intelligence for 25 years, christened her startup Sunshine. It’s devoted to AI-empowering family and social life with photo sharing, contact managing, and event planning.

As I spoke with Mayer in Sunshine’s candy-colored digs in Palo Alto, I was so stunned by her boosterism that I ended up mirroring it. “By gum, you’re right!” I said, all but slapping my knee. Intelligent machines are our bosom buddies. Anthropic’s Claude had that very morning given me canny insight into a personal matter.

What delighted me less about Mayer (pronounced MYE-er), as an alpha female in Silicon Valley, was her disdain for feminism. She first voiced it in 2013, to widespread criticism from the liberal sisterhood that likes to have the alpha females of Silicon Valley with us in solidarity. If I’d expected her to back off this position, I was wrong. She dug in. “I started learning about feminism as a teenager,” Mayer told me. “It was something more militant, more hardened, less based on merit. It didn’t resonate with me.” Then she used the word “shrill.”

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