About this episode

Joanna Stern discusses her year of outsourcing her life to AI, exploring its benefits and hidden costs.

I Am Not a Robot author Joanna Stern spent a year letting AI run her life. She reveals what it's actually good for — and its hidden costs. Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1352 What We Discuss with Joanna Stern: How a chatbot that never tells you your ideas are dumb becomes less of a companion and more of an emotional slot machine — and why the always-available AI therapist that remembers your every 4 a.m. anxiety is both a genuine comfort and a quiet, compounding cost to real human connection. Why you can spot exactly where AI falls short the moment it wanders into your own field of expertise — and how that very gap, between confident output and actual competence, is the most important lens for judging whether these tools are ready to replace the humans who do the work. What it really costs to hand AI your medical results and financial data for a quick second opinion — and why stripping out your name, birthday, and identifiers matters when the convenience of instant answers quietly trades away privacy you can never claw back. How genuinely impressive humanoid robots and robotaxis are as feats of engineering — and why the viral demos of…

People in this episode

Host: Jordan Harbinger

Guest: Joanna Stern

Topics covered

• AI
• emotional connection
• privacy
• technology
• human interaction
• automation

Keywords

• AI
• automation
• privacy
• human connection
• technology
• emotional support
• robotics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: jordanharbinger.com

Books & works: I Am Not a Robot

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