I AM NOT A ROBOT

What happens when intelligent machines are not just in our pockets but also driving our cars, making our decisions, folding our laundry, and educating our kids? You have heard the hype: AI will make us healthier, give every child a personalized tutor, run our businesses more efficiently, return hours of free time to our overworked brains, and make discoveries previously unimagined by humankind. The AI future is going to be unlike any other technological revolution. But what does that really mean? And will AI truly make life better? To find out, award-winning journalist **Joana Stern** surrendered her life to artificial intelligence for one year. The results are both hilarious and unsettling. **I Am Not a Robot** is like a time machine trip to the very near future, where AI promises to be your doctor, chauffeur, teacher, masseuse, coworker, therapist, financial planner, chef, housekeeper, and even romantic partner. Your colleague might be using ChatGPT to write emails at work, but Joana used AI tools and robots to do household chores, manage her health, and transport her family on vacation. If there was a decision to make or a task to do, she let AI go first. Along the way, she conducted exclusive interviews with the tech leaders building this future, then reported back from the front lines as your funny, no-nonsense tour guide. Of course, tech’s sunny promises never tell the whole story, and that is what Joana is here to share. Filled with illustrations and photographs, this book offers less hype, more clarity, and as little jargon as humanly, or robotically, possible. It is an AI guide for ordinary people, not the tech bros who tried to sell you a cruise to the metaverse or an NFT of a cartoon monkey. This book is not the definitive story, because we are only a few years into the AI revolution. But after a year of living as a human lab rat, Joana delivers one of the clearest and funniest pictures yet of what is really happening and what it means for you.