Welcome back to The AI Shift. This week, we’ve taken on a question which has been suggested to us by a few newsletter readers: do men and women use AI differently? And if so, does it matter? Over to John first for a look at the data. You can reach us here.

John writes

While precise numbers vary, most attempts at disaggregating usage by sex find that men are using generative AI more than women. The gender gap in adoption has been narrowing — especially for overall use across all categories, which estimates from OpenAI put at roughly 50/50 male female. But where we drill down to use in the course of someone’s paid work, men consistently report both being more likely to use generative AI at all and heavier users among those who have adopted the tech. And unlike the narrowing we see in overall usage, the gap at work has been holding firm if not widening.