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EPISODE · Jun 2, 2026 · 25 MIN

A journalist's 365 day AI experiment

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At a moment when there's a growing backlash and resistance against the AI that's starting to permeate so many parts of our life — tech journalist Joanna Stern went all in. She decided to  see what would happen if she spent a year using AI in almost every part of her  life. She used it to communicate, to help her plan her dinners, to track all her conversations. And she even created an AI boyfriend named Evan. The results of the experiment are in her new book, I Am Not A Robot: My Year Using AI to do (Almost) Everything.

At a moment when there's a growing backlash and resistance against the AI that's starting to permeate so many parts of our life — tech journalist Joanna Stern went all in. She decided to  see what would happen if she spent a year using AI in almost every part of her  life. She used it to communicate, to help her plan her dinners, to track all her conversations. And she even created an AI boyfriend named Evan. The results of the experiment are in her new book, I Am Not A Robot: My Year Using AI to do (Almost) Everything.

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