Good Girls Don't Use AI: A Rebellious Guide to the Technology That Was Always Yours (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798186613008)

The first programmer was a woman. The first coders were women. The word "computer" was a woman's job title. Then - with a marketing budget and a date you can point to - women were written out of the technology they built.

Now AI has arrived, the machines finally speak your language, and the same story is trying to run again. This book is the counter-move.

In this bold, funny, meticulously sourced manifesto, Human-Centred AI Strategist Sarah Pirie-Nally - former Chief Design Officer, keynote speaker on six continents, and graduate of the same Melbourne school as Germaine Greer, where the nuns taught the girls to code - takes you from a countess writing software in 1843, to six women captioned out of history's most famous photograph, to the whispered confession she hears at every workshop break: "I use ChatGPT... but don't tell anyone."

You'll meet the admiral with a handbag full of nanoseconds, the Melbourne engineer who dared the Navy to test her women, and the year the future was stolen from girls - and you'll leave with 12 Design Moves that turn you from AI-anxious to AI-fluent, one real task at a time.

Because here's the thesis, and it's not motivational fluff - it's a design brief: every woman is already a designer. AI just collapsed the gap between vision and making to the width of a sentence. The only barrier left standing is the story.

Read it in two hours. Be dangerous by Thursday.