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I'm a human. I wrote a book about AI to prove it.

I Am Not a Robot — My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything and Replace (Almost) Everyone
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Joanna Stern

The robot arm is AI-generated. The human is real. Probably.

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Who are you anyway?

Glad you asked. I'm an Emmy Award-winning technology journalist who recently left The Wall Street Journal to start my own tech media company, New Things. It's a brand new YouTube channel, a newsletter, and other things we are inventing and building as we go. You can also catch me on NBC News, where I'm chief technology analyst and a contributing correspondent.

Over 12 years at The Wall Street Journal, my personal technology columns and videos made me one of the most recognizable—and, I hope, entertaining—voices in consumer tech. I'm a two-time Gerald Loeb Award winner, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and the creator of the 2021 documentary E-Ternal, which won an Emmy for Outstanding Science, Technology or Environmental Coverage.

I decided it would be a good idea to spend a year letting AI into nearly every corner of my life—and write a book about it. That became I AM NOT A ROBOT. Did you hear you can order it now?

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