How AI Almost Led To This Tech Reporter’s Divorce - The Story

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Joanna Stern discusses her year-long experiment with AI and its impact on her life and work.

What happens when you let technology take over your life? Joanna Stern ( Fmr. Wall Street Journal / New Things ) found out. She spent all of 2025 letting the robots in: Waymos, AI therapists, robot massagers, assistant researcher agents… During that yearlong experiment, Joanna Stern chronicled her findings in a new book, I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything . She speaks to Oz about letting AI diagnose her son’s praying mantis, sending Bill Gates her health log, and how she sees AI impacting the job market. Additional Reading:  I Am Not A Robot | Joanna Stern      EXCLUSIVE  NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/techstuff Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Host: Oz

Guest: Joanna Stern

Topics covered

• AI
• technology
• personal experience
• job market
• healthcare
• automation

Keywords

• AI
• technology
• Joanna Stern
• automation
• job market
• healthcare
• personal experience

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Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Wall Street Journal

Books & works: I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything

Places: 2025

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