{"id":23375,"date":"2026-06-04T04:38:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/my-year-with-the-robots-how-joanna-stern-let-ai-into-her-home-work-and-heart\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T04:38:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:38:04","slug":"my-year-with-the-robots-how-joanna-stern-let-ai-into-her-home-work-and-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/my-year-with-the-robots-how-joanna-stern-let-ai-into-her-home-work-and-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"My year with the robots: how Joanna Stern let AI into her home, work \u2013 and heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2025, the tech journalist invited artificial intelligence to do nearly everything for her, including editing the book she was writing about the experiment. Some of it was useful, some not \u2013 but it was her time with a chatbot companion that really shook her<\/p>\n

For a year, Joanna Stern<\/a> decided to turn herself into a \u201clab rat\u201d \u2013 the object of her own experiment. Throughout 2025, she invited artificial intelligence into \u201cevery corner\u201d of her life. She let AI answer her texts, decide what she ate and cooked, mow her lawn, fold her washing, drive her places, parse her mammograms and even, in the darkness of a burner phone, be her lover. The resulting book, I\u00a0Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything, asks all the big questions, including: what happens when AI can do everything humans can do? And what comes after that?<\/p>\n

If anyone can produce answers, surely it\u2019s Stern. Last February, she ended a 12-year stint as a personal technology columnist at the Wall Street Journal. During her tenure, she won an Emmy for her short documentary E-Ternal: A Tech Quest to \u201cLive\u201d Forever, which explored digital legacies, and built a reputation for product reviews that were outlandishly creative and fiendishly stringent. She once took an Apple watch jetskiing on the Hudson river to evaluate its\u00a0connectivity.<\/p>\n

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\nIn 2025, the tech journalist invited artificial intelligence to do nearly everything for her, including editing the book she was writing about the experiment. Some of it was useful, some not \u2013 but it was her time with a chatbot companion that really shook her
\nFor a year, Joanna Stern decided to turn herself into a \u201clab rat\u201d \u2013 the object of her own experiment. Throughout 2025, she invited artificial intelligence into \u201cevery corner\u201d of her life. She let AI answer her texts, decide what she ate and cooked, mow her lawn, fold her washing, drive her places, parse her mammograms and even, in the darkness of a burner phone, be her lover. The resulting book, I\u00a0Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything, asks all the big questions, including: what happens when AI can do everything humans can do? And what comes after that?
\nIf anyone can produce answers, surely it\u2019s Stern. Last February, she ended a 12-year stint as a personal technology columnist at the Wall Street Journal. During her tenure, she won an Emmy for her short documentary E-Ternal: A Tech Quest to \u201cLive\u201d Forever, which explored digital legacies, and built a reputation for product reviews that were outlandishly creative and fiendishly stringent. She once took an Apple watch jetskiing on the Hudson river to evaluate its\u00a0connectivity. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2025, the tech journalist invited artificial intelligence to do nearly everything for her, including editing the book she was writing about the experiment. Some of it was useful, some not \u2013 but it was her time with a chatbot companion that really shook her For a year, Joanna Stern decided to turn herself into …<\/p>\n

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