Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? + The Allure of AI Love — With Joanna Stern
5/13/202643 min
Joanna Stern is the author of "I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do Almost Everything" and the founder of The New Thing. Stern joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss what happens when you infuse AI into every part of your life. Tune in to hear about her 48-hour road trip with an AI boyfriend, why she found chatbot relationships genuinely tempting, and what the sycophancy of these tools means for how we relate to each other. We also cover the promise and limits of AI wearables, how AI is quietly reshaping healthcare diagnostics from mammograms to dental X-rays, and whether Apple can finally deliver on Siri. Hit play for a fascinating look at the human side of living with AI, and why the biggest risks might not be technical. Join us for the Big Technology AI Summit: https://summit.bigtechnology.com/
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First 90 secondsAlex Kantrowitz· Host0:00
What happens when you infuse AI into everything you do? Let's talk about it with former Wall Street Journal personal tech columnist Joanna Stern right after this. Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed and nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond. Today, we're gonna talk all about what happens when you put AI in your life, and you do everything with it, and we have the perfect guest to do it with us today. Joanna Stern is here. She is the author of I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do Almost Everything. Also, you are the everything in chief of the new things after you've left the Wall Street Journal as a, where you were a personal tech columnist for many years. Joanna, welcome.
Joanna Stern· Guest0:39
That is, that is me. Thank you for having me.
Alex Kantrowitz· Host0:42
You bet. All right, so look, we're gonna talk all about how you've really pushed AI to the limit in your own life. Um, we're in the middle of, let's call it, like, tech developer conference season, and everybody's gonna tell us about how, you know, if you really wanna push tech to the limit in your own life, you're gonna need a wearable. You're gonna need to wear the Meta glasses or Siri or whatever it might be from, from Google. Let me start with the argument against these things. We've had them for a while. We have these AI assistants that are pretty powerful. Nobody is, like, hacking their way into smarter glasses, smarter earbuds. Uh, they're still cool for taking photos and videos, um, but maybe this promise of a wearable device with AI infused