1352: Joanna Stern | The Year I Outsourced My Life to AI

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AI therapists, AI doctors, AI dentists, AI robot dogs fake peeing on suburban shrubbery, AI boyfriends hiding on burner phones, robotaxis hauling her family around Phoenix, humanoid robots faceplanting in her house like a $40,000 Roomba with imposter syndrome. This is not another AI is gonna change everything, bro, where six venture capitalists and all birds pretend that autocomplete is the second coming of fire. Joanna actually lived with this stuff. She let AI into her home, her work, her health, her parenting, her marriage, her sleep, and because journalism occasionally demands emotional self-harm, her love life. We get into what AI is actually useful for, where it's still basically a confident intern with a carbon footprint, how it can help you understand medical results without replacing your doctor, which you should not seek to do anytime soon.

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