Hey, this is Evan. Hi, this is Stephanie. Nice to meet you, Stephanie. As you probably know, I'll be recording our conversation for a podcast. Is that all right with you?

Yeah, go ahead. From the beginning of this experiment, I've been exploring my personal feelings about AI and voice clones and voice

agents. And sometimes just exploring my feelings, period. But as a journalist, I'm used to gathering

a wider range of views, too. I'd gotten some sense of the ambient anxiety around AI from

therapists and startup founders and people I worked with. But what about the general

public? So a couple months ago, I put out a request for anyone to call me at a listed phone

number to answer a few questions for me about how they felt about AI. The number forwarded to one of

my VAPI numbers. So of course, it would be my AI voice agent asking the questions.

Hi. Well, I'm glad we could connect. So, Stephanie, have you had much personal interaction with AI?

Um, you know, I'm on Twitter, so I'm assuming that I see things on Twitter that are generated.

I'm 57, so I have one foot in the modern technology and then one foot back in the past where there were four channels or whatnot.

So I'm sure I probably interacted with that AI that I had no idea was AI.

You know what I mean?

The AI asked people about their concerns, and there were plenty of practical ones.

Deepfakes in politics, cheating in schools, hallucinations.

Some people, of course, worried it was coming for their jobs, or just human creativity

in general.

Like, Isaiah.

How do you feel about AI's potential in the legal field?

Um, I would hope that I didn't just, like, go into hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt

and spend all this time and energy, and I'm currently studying for the bar, uh, to get into a job that could be done by a robot.

And not only like to do with being a lawyer, but like anything, like stories, novelists or playwrights.

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