Women's Events Group Teaches Midlife Women to Use Artificial Intelligence
Former journalists Shoshana Berger and Nina Willdorf founded the Aged Intelligence Society, which hosts invite-only dinners where women tackle everyday problems with AI tools. The events have a waiting list, and similar meetups are now held outside the Bay Area.
Shoshana Berger, a former editor at WIRED magazine, and Nina Willdorf have founded an events startup called the Aged Intelligence Society. It hosts invite-only dinner parties where women work on midlife problems using artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Both founders described the project in an interview with WIRED's Zoë Schiffer, published as part of the Model Behavior newsletter.
Berger has also worked as an editorial leader at Notion and Ideo. According to her, the idea came up at a friend's birthday party: she and Willdorf were talking about the AI assistant Claude, while the other women present stayed out of the conversation. The pair then decided the topic could support a business.
How the dinners work
Willdorf says the ideal guest count is between eight and twelve. Each attendee brings a laptop and a personal "midlife quandary." During roughly 15 minutes of "library time," guests work on their problem while the founders walk around suggesting tools or better prompts. One house rule is an "ideological parking lot": debates about AI's dangers are set aside, since the evenings are meant for building skills and reducing administrative workload.
Demand and examples
The events have been oversubscribed since the start. The New York Times covered the second dinner, hundreds of women asked to attend future events, and the founders' Substack newsletter quickly passed 1,000 subscribers. Women outside the Bay Area are now hosting their own meetups.
Berger cited a woman who used AI to review a 300-page packet from an insurer to find out whether her mother, who has an Alzheimer's diagnosis, qualified for long-term care. Berger also said that when she began consulting, Claude told her that her fee was too low and advised doubling it; she did so, and the client did not object.
The events are aimed at women aged 40 and over. The founders argue that women at that age know how to ask sharp questions and do not simply accept the first answer.
