Joanna Stern, a technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal, spent months living with robots to understand the integration of artificial intelligence into daily life. Her new book, *I Am Not a Robot*, released May 1 by W. W. Norton, documents that experiment. Stern’s reporting, detailed in a collaborative feature with The Verge AI, places her own domestic experience at the center of a larger inquiry: how do humans adapt to systems designed to mimic them? The book arrives at a moment when generative AI has saturated consumer products, from voice assistants to autonomous appliances. Stern’s method—immersive, skeptical, embodied—offers a counterweight to industry hype. Yet the very premise of living with robots as a journalistic act raises an unresolved tension: whether personal exposure can bridge the gap between technical capability and genuine understanding, or whether the exercise merely reproduces the novelty it seeks to explain.