Amanda Hoover; Alyssa Powell/BI

I built my replacement

I let an AI agent do my job for a week. It thinks my boss is an idiot.

Amanda Hoover; Alyssa Powell/BI

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2026-05-01T08:07:01.292Z

Rather than wait to find out if AI will replace me, I built my replacement.

Big Tech execs say AI might take our jobs , it might lighten our workloads , or it might put us into new jobs we didn't imagine. A recent Goldman Sachs report estimates that about 7% of workers will be displaced by AI over the next decade. Too anxious to wait until 2036, I wanted to see how close AI could get to taking my job as a reporter in 2026 — hoping it was many, many years away.

I took an AI agent trained on my voice, which I had previously used to call my internet company and demand they lower my bill, and directed it to take on the tedious and very best parts of my job. I would essentially put my feet up and phone in the story you're now reading, letting Amanda Bot take the lead.…