My year with the robots: how Joanna Stern let AI into her home, work – and heart

Key points

• For a year, Joanna Stern decided to turn herself into a “lab rat” – the object of her own experiment.
• Throughout 2025, she invited artificial intelligence into “every corner” of her life.
• She let AI answer her texts, decide what she ate and cooked, mow her lawn, fold her washing, drive her places, parse her mammograms and even, in the darkness of a burner phone, be her lover.
• The resulting book, I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything, asks all the big questions, including: what happens when AI can do everything humans can do?
• And what comes after that?