{"id":8687,"date":"2026-10-14T20:32:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T20:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=8687"},"modified":"2026-10-14T20:32:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T20:32:33","slug":"men-cant-stop-faking-how-much-they-know-about-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=8687","title":{"rendered":"Men Can\u2019t Stop Faking How Much They Know About AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"lead-in-text-callout\">Say you\u2019re a<\/span> guy who reads WIRED\u2014you know a thing or two about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/artificial-intelligence\/\" class=\"text link\">artificial intelligence<\/a>. You recognize the names of well-known people developing AI, like OpenAI CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/sam-altman\/\" class=\"text link\">Sam Altman<\/a>. But do you know who Mira Murati is? What about Susan Milner? Craig Dalton?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In a new survey of more than 5,400 Americans, 73 percent of male respondents told Harvard researchers they knew who Altman was. A little over half\u201453 percent\u2014said they knew of Murati, Milner, and Dalton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">There\u2019s one problem. Murati is a real person: she\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/mira-murati-humans-in-the-loop-ai-models-thinking-machines\/\" class=\"text link\">the former CTO of OpenAI and the current CEO of Thinking Machine Labs.<\/a> Milner and Dalton, on the other hand, do not exist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Compared to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/women-in-tech-survey\/\" class=\"text link\">women<\/a>, \u201cwe&#8217;re seeing that men are more optimistic and more confident\u201d across the board when it comes to AI, Harvard Kennedy School\u2019s Shorenstein Center executive director Laura Manley tells WIRED. Sometimes, that veers into overconfidence\u2014like claiming to recognize fictional AI executives. (For context, 40 percent of women claimed to know who Milner and Dalton were; 38 percent said they recognized Murati.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">While Manley notes that men are more overconfident in general when surveyed, the report, published on Wednesday, digs into what the confidence gap on AI looks like, as well as the repercussions of gendered divides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Researchers found that men use AI more frequently and are, on average, better able to correctly answer factual questions about AI. But men and women answer questions <em>incorrectly<\/em> at around the same rate. The discrepancy is based on how often women said they weren\u2019t sure of an answer\u2014an average of 3.3 questions out of 12 compared to 2.3 questions for men.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Researchers wondered if this predilection toward certainty colors coverage of AI. Across a year of media coverage, men were named in headlines about AI more than 14 times as often as women. Because top AI executives skew heavily male, researchers decided to reexamine coverage, looking solely at people who were quoted as subject experts. Three-quarters of these experts were men\u2014a higher proportion than the actual AI talent pool, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/searching-for-powerful-women-silicon-valley\/\" class=\"text link\">roughly 29 percent women.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cMaybe there should be more women prominently featured as experts or given the platform to express: not sure,\u201d Manley says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Besides intellectual bluster, Americans were generally in agreement that AI was freaking them out\u2014men and women both rated \u201cconcern\u201d as their top emotional response. However, female respondents were more concerned, fearful, and worried than their male counterparts. Men, meanwhile, rated every positive feeling\u2014including curiosity, enthusiasm, and excitement\u2014higher than women did.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In the current discourse, \u201cthere&#8217;s so much confidence in either doom or abundance,\u201d Manley says. \u201cIt just drowns out all of the voices that should be saying \u2018not sure.\u2019\u201d There are many unanswered questions on proper uses for and the future of AI. One gender is simply less likely to acknowledge such uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cWe have to be able to be able to say \u2018not sure\u2019 more often,\u201d Manley says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/men-cant-stop-faking-how-much-they-know-about-ai\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say you\u2019re a guy who reads WIRED\u2014you know a thing or two about artificial intelligence. 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