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Ethical AI, Featuring CEO of SkillSaige Sayre Blake

A personal conversation with Iryna Barnett about ethical AI, motherhood, women in technology, and building a company whose culture reflects its product values.

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Iryna Barnett and I talk about the experiences that made ethical AI feel like an operating requirement rather than an abstract principle. We trace the path through creative technology, systems work, and motherhood that led me to build SkillSaige around practice, boundaries, and human agency.

We also get into what it means to be a woman building in technology, why company culture is part of product design, and how sustainable leadership changes the decisions a founder makes before those decisions become expensive to reverse.