Testing an AI Reporter: A Week With a Voice-Cloned Colleague That Hung Up

A Business Insider writer experiments with an AI voice agent to handle interviews and draft a piece on AI in journalism. The bot demonstrates AI’s potential to streamline reporting but proves clumsy in real conversations—delays, over-affirmations, and even two call drops—leading the editor to intervene and steer the story back to a human-written approach. The piece highlights both the promise and current limits of AI tools in newsroom workflows and underscores that human judgment and experience remain essential.