She Spent a Year Using AI to Do Almost Everything. Here's What She Learned

How Joanna Stern gets it done — with some help from AI

Early in the morning on the day of the first Seder this year, I got on a train to New Jersey with a bag of potatoes and a cunning plan to outsource their cooking. I was on my way to interview journalist and tech-maven Joanna Stern. In her new book, I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything, she notes, while using the Posha AI cooking robot, that “robots won’t kill us with lasers, they’ll kill us with salt.” Together we would s…

I Used AI for Almost Everything for 1 Year: Here's What I Learned

Joanna Stern, NBC chief technology analyst and correspondent, immersed herself in the world of artificial intelligence, testing more than 100 cutting-edge AI products and documented her journey in a book called “I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything.” Stern joins TODAY to talk about her takeaways, including the importance of feeling in control of AI saying “I will work with AI but I am not working for it.”

She spent a year using AI to do almost everything. Here's what she learned

Tech writer Joanna Stern used AI to read medical results, respond to texts and serve as her therapist. She says her emotional connection to it was unsettling. Her new book is I Am Not a Robot.

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