Brian Mayer on WNYC, and this next segment is a guaranteed AI-free zone.

Probably.

When author and essayist, A.J. Jacobs decided to live 48 hours without artificial

intelligence, no chat GPT, no algorithms, not even the facial recognition feature on his phone,

he thought it would be simple. Then he realized he couldn't check the weather, ride the subway,

even brush his teeth without bumping into some kind of machine learning.

Now Jacobs, who some of you know from his past appearances on this show and other things,

who's made a career out of turning himself into a human experiment living biblically for a year,

remember that book, reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica,

even following the Constitution's original meaning,

quote unquote, set out to see how much of his everyday life in this experiment was quietly run by AI,

the answer just about all of it. He wrote about it in the New York Times under the headline

48 hours

without AI, a funny, revealing chronicle of how hard it is to escape the algorithmic web we all live

in. So we'll talk about what he learned, what he wore, what he ate, and what is two days

without AI say about the future of being human, even with us now is, A.J. Jacobs, host of the Hello Puzzlers

podcast, essayist, author of The Year of Living Biblically, the know-it-all, it's all relative,

in which he proved that he and I are very, very distant cousins. And his latest, the year of living constitutionally, one man's humble

quest to follow the Constitution's original meaning. Always great to have you, AJ. Hi, welcome

back to WNYC. Delighted to be here, Brian. And also very happy to hear it's AI-free. I was a little

worried. I might be talking to an AI-generated Brian Lerer, but I'm now assured you're the real thing.

Well, I'm not an AI-generated Brian Lerer, but I said it's probably an AI-free segment because of what you experienced.

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