I heard a great editor and he often told me these lines are not funny.

AI was saying I was Tina Fey, but my editors were saying you're definitely not.

You need somebody who can tell you that.

Yes. And AI is not that person.

Yeah, AI thinks you're great all the time.

Which is to say, like, the meat of the joy of our craft is probably in the interaction between you, your work,

and the human editor who's going to push your work to the next level, right?

From LinkedIn News, I'm Jesse Hempel and this is Hello Monday.

My guest today spent a year letting AI into every corner of her life.

Machines wrote her emails, analyzed her medical records, texted her wife, drove her around, and even folded her laundry.

For real. Her name is Joanna Stern, and she spent over a decade reporting on tech at the Wall Street Journal,

before going independent with the

launch of her own media outlet. It's called New Things. Joanna has a new book out. It's called

I Am Not a Robot. She chronicles her year-long experiment with AI and not surprisingly,

she found some of it works, some of it really doesn't, and some of it needs

guardrails. Here's Joanna Stern. It is wonderful to have you, and I so enjoyed your book.

Thank you for reading it. I am not a robot. And I felt like it was sort of presumptuous of you to feel like you needed to put that

in the title just to be sure guys I want you to know I am not a robot what did the book set out to do

it set out to prove I'm not a robot though right now I'm still questioning my decision or my

outcome if I am a robot.

The reason I went out and set out to do this was that way, way long ago, 2024, 2023, the time of the dinosaurs, tech executives were just waxing on constantly about how AI was going to change our lives. And...

20-24. I mean, they've been waxing on about that since I started covering tech in 2003.

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