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She embedded AI into every part of her life (tech journalist Joanna Stern) | Pioneers of AI

About Joanna

  • WSJ personal tech columnist for 12+ years; regular CNBC contributor
  • Won a 2021 News & Documentary Emmy
  • Earned Gerald Loeb Awards in 2016 and 2022 for tech reporting
  • Co-created This Is My Next, which evolved into The Verge
  • Author of 2026 AI book I Am Not a Robot; launched New Things media co.

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It’s not easy to cover AI as a reporter when the technology moves so fast. Joanna Stern’s approach: learn by doing. For one year, the longtime Wall Street Journal tech reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist embedded AI into every corner of her life: her doctor’s office, her kids’ toys, even her romantic relationships. (Her wife approved the last one.) Stern chronicles the experience in her new book, I Am Not a Robot, a perspective on consumer AI that’s equal parts honest, funny, and hopeful. On this Pioneers of AI episode, Stern shares what her year with AI actually taught her.

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