{"id":215162,"date":"2026-05-17T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/what-joanna-stern-learned-after-a-year-of-letting-ai-run-her-life\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T00:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T04:30:32","slug":"what-joanna-stern-learned-after-a-year-of-letting-ai-run-her-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/what-joanna-stern-learned-after-a-year-of-letting-ai-run-her-life\/","title":{"rendered":"What Joanna Stern Learned After a Year of Letting AI Run Her Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/247wallst.com\/investing\/2026\/05\/17\/what-joanna-stern-learned-after-a-year-of-letting-ai-run-her-life\/\">What Joanna Stern Learned After a Year of Letting AI Run Her Life<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/247wallst.com\/investing\/2026\/05\/17\/what-joanna-stern-learned-after-a-year-of-letting-ai-run-her-life\/\">https:\/\/247wallst.com\/investing\/2026\/05\/17\/what-joanna-stern-learned-after-a-year-of-letting-ai-run-her-life\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-17 20:25:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"247wallst.com\">247wallst.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Certainly! Here&#8217;s a summary of Joanna Stern&#8217;s year-long experiment with AI, based on her book &#8220;I Am Not a Robot,&#8221; in an unordered list format:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Diverse AI Usage:<\/strong><br \/>\nStern explored various AI technologies, from chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude to humanoid robots and self-driving cars, beyond just administrative tasks.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Administrative Breakthroughs:<\/strong><br \/>\nAI significantly improved Stern&#8217;s ability to handle administrative work, automating tasks from receipt processing to data management. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Risky Email Automation:<\/strong><br \/>\nStern remains cautious about fully automating her emails with AI due to the high risk of errors.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>The Praying Mantis Lesson:<\/strong><br \/>\nStern&#8217;s children learned a valuable lesson about questioning AI after an incorrect fact provided by one of the chatbots resulted in a real-world consequence.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Challenges of AI Hallucinations:<\/strong><br \/>\nStern noticed &#8220;hallucinations&#8221; in AI&#8217;s responses, which she attributes to the way large language models are built and trained.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Dependency:<\/strong><br \/>\nStern&#8217;s co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin shared his experience of forming a deep dependency on AI while working intensively with it.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Un outsourced Personal Life:<\/strong><br \/>\nStern acknowledges that certain personal areas of her life remain untouched by AI due to risks like divorce and homelessness if AI were fully integrated.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Professional Impact:<\/strong><br \/>\nAI inspired Stern to leave her job as a technology writer at The Wall Street Journal and start her own media brand, recognizing AI as a crucial co-founder and trusted tool.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For detailed insights and further context, readers are encouraged to check out Stern&#8217;s book and related interviews.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Joanna Stern Learned After a Year of Letting AI Run Her Life https:\/\/247wallst.com\/investing\/2026\/05\/17\/what-joanna-stern-learned-after-a-year-of-letting-ai-run-her-life\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/247wallst.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/shutterstock-1551203687-huge-licensed-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215164,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215162\/revisions\/215164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}