My Year With AI

What happens when you let artificial intelligence run your life?

As AI tools move from novelty to necessity—writing emails, making decisions, translating languages, and organizing our daily routines—the line between human judgment and machine assistance is getting blurrier by the day. But how close are we, really, to The Jetsons’ Rosie the Robot?

To find out, Emmy Award–winning technology journalist Joanna Stern decided to hand over the keys. For a full year, she let AI systems take the lead—tasking Claude to run a vending machine for her Wall Street Journal colleagues (with humorous and chaotic results), testing out a 1x Neo humanoid robot for household chores, and inserting AI into her work, decisions, and even family life.

The outcome? Equal parts impressive, absurd, and occasionally alarming. These experiments were the basis for Stern’s new book, I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything. At CHM, Stern will share what actually worked, what (hilariously) didn’t, and what her year as an AI-assisted human reveals about where this technology is headed.

Join us for a lively, candid conversation about life with AI—and what it means to stay human when your to-do list has a mind of its own.

What You’ll Experience:

• Insights from Joanna Stern, NBC News chief tech analyst, founder of The New Things, and former Wall Street Journal tech columnist.
• Real stories of AI wins, fails, and “what just happened?” moments.
• A clear, entertaining look at incredible AI breakthroughs — and where AI quite literally still falls flat.