She Let AI Take Over Her Life For a Year

The Journal.

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Personal tech journalist Joanna Stern let AI be her doctor, driver, colleague, housekeeper, therapist and lover as research for her new book "I Am Not a Robot." In this live taping of The Journal, Stern discusses how artificial intelligence is increasingly shaping how we think and work. Ryan Knutson hosts. Further Listening: Move Over, Humans. China's Robots Are Taking Over Inside Meta’s Big AI Pivot Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This interview was filmed at the Wall Street Journal's Future of Everything event in New York.
0:09.3	You can watch the interview on Spotify.
0:12.7	Artificial intelligence is seemingly everywhere.
0:15.5	And our workplaces, our schools, our homes, our doctor's offices, and even for some of us,
0:21.7	our love lives.
0:27.5	Joanna Stern is an Emmy Award-winning tech journalist, and throughout 2025, she decided to let AI and robots take over every aspect of her life as research for her new book, which is called
0:33.3	I Am Not a Robot. It comes out later this month. Today, we're going to sit down and talk about
0:38.5	whether AI is living up to its promises and the impact it's having on our human lives.
0:44.1	And given that this is a live taping of the journal podcast, please cue the theme.
0:50.2	Live from the Wall Street Journal's future of everything in New York, welcome to The Journal, our show about money, business, and power.
0:57.5	I'm Ryan Canoeslin.
0:59.2	Coming up on the show, Joanna Stern on her year of AI. Heyda, it's your big McDonald's hunger calling.
1:18.5	And it's not just any kind of hunger.
1:20.2	It's the kind that calls for big arch.
1:22.0	Start with juicy beef, cheddar cheese and big arch sauce.
1:25.7	Oh, and don't forget those crispy onions. Hungry?
1:28.3	You are now.
1:30.3	Saved from 11am, subject to availability.
1:33.3	Price and participation may vary.
1:40.3	So the title of your book is I am not a robot.
1:45.0	And I'm not just going to take your word for it to prove that you're not a robot.
1:50.0	I need you to look at all these images and tell me which ones include bicycles.
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