Women Worry That Admitting They Use AI Will Hurt Them at Work

Earlier this month, the actor Reese Witherspoon went into her sunlit kitchen to mix herself a smoothie and accidentally stirred up some beef.

In a social media video that captured the moment, she explained she’d been attending one of her eponymous book clubs the day before and asked a group of 10 women how many of them were using artificial intelligence. Just three of them were, only one confidently so.

“That means 70% of that group is not keeping up,” Witherspoon said. In a caption she added she was worried women were at risk of being “left behind” in ...