AI Book Club recording: I Am Not a Robot by Joanna Stern

This is a recording of our AI Book Club discussion of I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything by Joanna Stern, held September 20, 2026. The group gave the book its lowest ratings yet, and much of the discussion is about why: so many of the experiences come across as superficial stunts with AI, rather than true engagement. In our discussion, some found the medical chapter to be the book's strongest section. Other topics: the question of whether you should fix a system before amplifying it, chatbots that give you the candid career advice your friends won't, school policies on AI and who tutoring actually serves, work threads where both sides are pasting from AI, and the line between removing drudgery and giving away the thinking.