Adult Education: Look Me in the A.I.
Whine Down with Jana Kramer
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
It feels like A.I. is everywhere these days, but Jana needs to know the truth behind the bots. Tech journalist Joanna Stern is here to share the good and the bad of AI after spending a year testing it in her everyday life.
Joanna explains why even casual AI use can be dangerous, especially when people form an emotional connection to a chatbot.
Plus, she helps on how to manage AI with kids, and what a future with humanoid robots in our homes might look like!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Wind Down with Janet Kramer, an IHeart Radio podcast. |
| 0:10.9 | Okay, this week's AE, we've got Joanna Stern on. |
| 0:14.7 | So she has a book. |
| 0:16.4 | It's called I Am Not a Robot. |
| 0:18.6 | My Year Using AI to Do Almost everything. So it actually just landed |
| 0:22.6 | on the New York Times bestsellers list last week. And she lived her entire year using AI. So let's get |
| 0:30.6 | into it because I have a ton of questions. Okay. So just to like hop into it, why did you decide to do a full? |
| 0:39.1 | Like what was your like, I want to try this? |
| 0:41.0 | Like I, so that's my first question. |
| 0:42.8 | Then I've got a plenty more to follow. |
| 0:46.0 | Well, I'm a technology journalist. |
| 0:48.2 | I have reviewed technology for the last, I have almost two decades now. |
| 0:52.3 | Okay. |
| 0:52.6 | And I have always tested the latest and greatest gadgets and apps and services. |
| 0:58.8 | And so when I started hearing so much from the tech industry about AI is going to change |
| 1:04.0 | our lives, it's going to change all these parts of our lives, our medical, our education, |
| 1:10.6 | transportation, all these things. I said, okay, I want to try all of this. |
| 1:15.1 | I want to test all of this. |
| 1:16.9 | And typically in a lot of my reviews in the past, I'll do 24 hours testing something, a week |
| 1:21.8 | testing something. |
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