{"id":9189,"date":"2026-10-22T20:10:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T20:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=9189"},"modified":"2026-10-22T20:10:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T20:10:31","slug":"aged-intelligence-society-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=9189","title":{"rendered":"The Social Society Helping Women Join the AI Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"lead-in-text-callout\">I\u2019m not even<\/span> going to try to pretend I don\u2019t have a bit of a girl-crush on Shoshana Berger. She\u2019s a former WIRED editor turned editorial leader for companies like Notion and Ideo. She\u2019s super smart and chic. And she\u2019s the cofounder, with Nina Willdorf, of the <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/aged-intelligence.com\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/aged-intelligence.com\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/aged-intelligence.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aged Intelligence Society<\/a>, a buzzy events startup that hosts invite-only dinner parties where women \u201csolve midlife problems using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/artificial-intelligence\/\" class=\"text link\">frontier tools<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Berger and Willdorf having a refreshingly practical take on AI. \u201cThis is the most formative technology of our generation, and it\u2019s here,\u201d Willdorf says. \u201cIf you choose to sit it out, you are doing yourself a disservice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">That thesis resonates. Their events have been oversubscribed since day one. The second dinner party they hosted was covered by <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/10\/20\/style\/ai-chatbot-prompt-parties-san-francisco.html\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/10\/20\/style\/ai-chatbot-prompt-parties-san-francisco.html&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/10\/20\/style\/ai-chatbot-prompt-parties-san-francisco.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a>. Hundreds of women reached out asking to attend future events. Their Substack, where they share tools and tips, quickly got over 1,000 subscribers, including a New Yorker writer and a small-town mayor. Women outside the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/san-francisco\/\" class=\"text link\">Bay Area<\/a> are now hosting their own Aged Intelligence meetups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">They also practice what they preach, especially as they juggle kids entering college, their own aging parents, and their increasingly in-demand business. \u201cThe midlife cognitive and emotional labor is so heavy and so intense that we need an assistant,\u201d Berger says. \u201cActually, we need the National Guard, but AI will help in the interim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><em>This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Zo\u00eb Schiffer:<\/strong> How did the Aged Intelligence Society start?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Shoshana Berger:<\/strong> Nina and I are both recovering magazine editors. We ended up at a friend&#8217;s birthday party, and we were both obsessing over Claude, our new French lover. All the other women had glazed eyes while we were talking; they just weren\u2019t part of the conversation. At some point I said, \u201cNina, I think this might be a business, because all these women need to be doing what we&#8217;re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Nina Willdorf:<\/strong> We were super nervous before the first event \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Berger:<\/strong> We needed to take beta blockers and ashwagandha because we were like, wait, we&#8217;re inviting all of these baller women, these really smart, incredibly accomplished women, and we\u2019re not AI experts. But we have been doing what we usually did as reporters, which is test the tools in a way many women did not seem to be doing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">There&#8217;s a million reasons for women to bow out of the conversation, and we were like, \u201cno, no, no, you cannot bow out of this conversation if you are going to be relevant in the work world. You need to be fluent.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/aged-intelligence-society-interview\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not even going to try to pretend I don\u2019t have a bit of a girl-crush on Shoshana Berger. She\u2019s a former WIRED editor turned editorial leader for companies like Notion and Ideo. She\u2019s super smart and chic. And she\u2019s the cofounder, with Nina Willdorf, of the Aged Intelligence Society, a buzzy events startup that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[83,242,275,339,1319],"class_list":["post-9189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-model-behavior","tag-networking","tag-san-francisco","tag-women-in-tech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Social Society Helping Women Join the AI Boom - Silvybrand Lifestyle Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"WIRED spoke with the founders of the Aged Intelligence Society, a fast-growing events startup that brings women together to \u201csolve midlife problems using frontier tools.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=9189\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Social Society Helping Women Join the AI Boom - Silvybrand Lifestyle Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WIRED spoke with the founders of the Aged Intelligence Society, a fast-growing events startup that brings women together to \u201csolve midlife problems using frontier tools.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=9189\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Silvybrand Lifestyle Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-10-22T20:10:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Model-Behavior-Illo-102226.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1146\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"SILVYBRAND\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"SILVYBRAND\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/?p=9189#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/?p=9189\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"SILVYBRAND\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8bdc6818a5b6ef5b9745e468818e37f3\"},\"headline\":\"The Social Society Helping Women Join the AI Boom\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-10-22T20:10:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/?p=9189\"},\"wordCount\":451,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/?p=9189#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/Model-Behavior-Illo-102226.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"artificial intelligence\",\"model behavior\",\"networking\",\"san francisco\",\"women in tech\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Gadgets\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/?p=9189#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/?p=9189\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/?p=9189\",\"name\":\"The Social Society Helping Women Join the AI Boom - Silvybrand Lifestyle Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/?p=9189#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/?p=9189#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/Model-Behavior-Illo-102226.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-10-22T20:10:31+00:00\",\"description\":\"WIRED spoke with the founders of the Aged Intelligence Society, a fast-growing events startup that brings women together to \u201csolve midlife problems using frontier tools.\u201d\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/?p=9189#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/?p=9189\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/?p=9189#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/Model-Behavior-Illo-102226.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/Model-Behavior-Illo-102226.jpg\",\"width\":1146,\"height\":600},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/?p=9189#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Social Society Helping Women Join the AI Boom\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"Silvybrand Lifestyle Blog\",\"description\":\"Your daily dose of lifestyle, fashion, travel, beauty, and inspiration \u2014 living boldly, stylishly, and confidently.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Silvybrand Lifestyle Blog\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/05\\\/SILVYBRAND-LOGO.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/05\\\/SILVYBRAND-LOGO.jpg\",\"width\":1115,\"height\":522,\"caption\":\"Silvybrand Lifestyle Blog\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8bdc6818a5b6ef5b9745e468818e37f3\",\"name\":\"SILVYBRAND\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/e7db54afd7d090e59e1a481fd3e6812d467eb2a3b81e7a3092023acfc59a496b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/e7db54afd7d090e59e1a481fd3e6812d467eb2a3b81e7a3092023acfc59a496b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/e7db54afd7d090e59e1a481fd3e6812d467eb2a3b81e7a3092023acfc59a496b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"SILVYBRAND\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silvybrand.com\\\/?author=1\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Social Society Helping Women Join the AI Boom - Silvybrand Lifestyle Blog","description":"WIRED spoke with the founders of the Aged Intelligence Society, a fast-growing events startup that brings women together to \u201csolve midlife problems using frontier tools.\u201d","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=9189","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Social Society Helping Women Join the AI Boom - Silvybrand Lifestyle Blog","og_description":"WIRED spoke with the founders of the Aged Intelligence Society, a fast-growing events startup that brings women together to \u201csolve midlife problems using frontier tools.\u201d","og_url":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=9189","og_site_name":"Silvybrand Lifestyle Blog","article_published_time":"2026-10-22T20:10:31+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1146,"height":600,"url":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Model-Behavior-Illo-102226.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"SILVYBRAND","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"SILVYBRAND","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=9189#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=9189"},"author":{"name":"SILVYBRAND","@id":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/#\/schema\/person\/8bdc6818a5b6ef5b9745e468818e37f3"},"headline":"The Social Society Helping Women Join the AI Boom","datePublished":"2026-10-22T20:10:31+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=9189"},"wordCount":451,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=9189#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Model-Behavior-Illo-102226.jpg","keywords":["artificial intelligence","model behavior","networking","san francisco","women in tech"],"articleSection":["Gadgets"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=9189#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=9189","url":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=9189","name":"The Social Society Helping Women Join the AI Boom - Silvybrand Lifestyle Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=9189#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=9189#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Model-Behavior-Illo-102226.jpg","datePublished":"2026-10-22T20:10:31+00:00","description":"WIRED spoke with the founders of the Aged Intelligence Society, a fast-growing events startup that brings women together to \u201csolve midlife problems using frontier tools.\u201d","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=9189#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=9189"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=9189#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Model-Behavior-Illo-102226.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Model-Behavior-Illo-102226.jpg","width":1146,"height":600},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=9189#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Social Society Helping Women Join the AI Boom"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/","name":"Silvybrand Lifestyle Blog","description":"Your daily dose of lifestyle, fashion, travel, beauty, and inspiration \u2014 living boldly, stylishly, and confidently.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/#organization","name":"Silvybrand Lifestyle Blog","url":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/SILVYBRAND-LOGO.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/SILVYBRAND-LOGO.jpg","width":1115,"height":522,"caption":"Silvybrand Lifestyle Blog"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/#\/schema\/person\/8bdc6818a5b6ef5b9745e468818e37f3","name":"SILVYBRAND","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e7db54afd7d090e59e1a481fd3e6812d467eb2a3b81e7a3092023acfc59a496b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e7db54afd7d090e59e1a481fd3e6812d467eb2a3b81e7a3092023acfc59a496b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e7db54afd7d090e59e1a481fd3e6812d467eb2a3b81e7a3092023acfc59a496b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"SILVYBRAND"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/silvybrand.com"],"url":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?author=1"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}