Aug 30, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min · 25 segments
Technology reporter Joanna Stern describes the year she spent using artificial intelligence and robots in all aspects of her life. The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, provided…
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called the Bee Bracelet, which was eventually, they were acquired by Amazon in 2025, August 2025.
You wear it, you can turn on and off the microphone, but you can leave the microphone on all day, and it will record everything that's being said, AI transcribes it, it summarizes it, and then gives you this to-do list.
And I found this surprisingly useful because I say I'm going to do a lot of things during the day and I don't do them.
And then I would forget to call the plumber, but then I'd open the app and I was like, yes, I did say that, right? And so, Back to the question, we could talk about a lot of the privacy concerns around this, and we can also talk about the utility and convenience of all this, but when you turn your life, what you say, into a data set, AI is very useful.
And so, in that case, the data was me and everything I said, and everyone around me, what I said.
Put that in the timeline.
A year ago, you gave a commencement speech to a bunch of drunk college students.
They would not boo you.
It's a great accomplishment, yes.
They're barely paying attention.
This is the year which you used AI to do everything in your life to write this book.
What did you feel changed that is causing the boos?
I don't have the full stats in companies, but we are absolutely hearing anecdotally that this is happening.
called the Bee Bracelet, which was eventually, they were acquired by Amazon in 2025, August 2025.
You wear it, you can turn on and off the microphone, but you can leave the microphone on all day, and it will record everything that's being said, AI transcribes it, it summarizes it, and then gives you this to-do list.
And I found this surprisingly useful because I say I'm going to do a lot of things during the day and I don't do them.
And then I would forget to call the plumber, but then I'd open the app and I was like, yes, I did say that, right? And so, Back to the question, we could talk about a lot of the privacy concerns around this, and we can also talk about the utility and convenience of all this, but when you turn your life, what you say, into a data set, AI is very useful.
And so, in that case, the data was me and everything I said, and everyone around me, what I said.
Put that in the timeline.
A year ago, you gave a commencement speech to a bunch of drunk college students.
They would not boo you.
It's a great accomplishment, yes.
They're barely paying attention.
This is the year which you used AI to do everything in your life to write this book.
What did you feel changed that is causing the boos?
I don't have the full stats in companies, but we are absolutely hearing anecdotally that this is happening.
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