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Welcome to Tech Stuff. I'm Oz Voloshin. My prediction for 2026 was that this would be the year of the robot, the year that physical AI entered our homes, workplaces, maybe even our bloodstream. Our guest today, Joanna Stern, was way ahead of me. On January 1st, 2025, she handed over her entire life for the next 365 days to AI and robots. She took Waymos on vacation, let AI answer emails, diagnosed her children's praying mantis. She even brought her AI therapist into her human therapist's office and also had AI confirm that she, Joanna, was in fact human. After more than 10 years at the Wall Street Journal interviewing the likes of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Dario Amodei along the way, Joanna recently became chief technology correspondent at NBC News, launched her own business called New Things, and wrote a fantastic book called I Am Not a Robot, My Year Using AI to Do Almost Everything, which is out now.
Welcome, Joanna.
Thank you for having me and thank you for what an intro. Well, you've been busy. I wrote that. I can actually tell AI didn't write that.
How could you tell?
Well, there was some real details from the book in there that I know AI doesn't know about yet. A praying mantis, especially. So I'm very impressed. Very, very nice writing.
We have to get into everything in the book, but start with the praying mantis, because I think that was my favorite moment in the book.
Yeah. So I have two sons that you learn that very quickly in the book. I have a four-year-old and an eight-year-old, or they were three and seven at the time of the book. And they knew about my experiment here. I was going to use AI in as many parts of life as possible, which meant that pretty much every question they asked me, I'm asking AI. And if you have small kids, you know, they ask a lot of random questions about things in the world. And so... Last summer, my oldest son, Noah, was very... He's always been very interested in bugs and nature. And so he had found a praying mantis outside. And he adopted it, made it a pet. And as a great parent, I embraced this.
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