In 2023, Silicon Valley experienced a year of restructuring, layoffs, and bizarre occurrences, such as Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s Vogue spread and a conversation between a New York Times reporter and Microsoft’s Bing chatbot that devolved into a fever dream. The lack of women in Silicon Valley was highlighted by the DevTernity tech conference, which had only one real female speaker. These events raised questions about the implications of artificial intelligence and the tech industry’s gender gap.
