{"id":353150,"date":"2026-05-01T16:38:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/kara-swisher-says-humans-connecting-not-technology-extends-your-life"},"modified":"2026-05-01T16:38:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:38:53","slug":"kara-swisher-says-humans-connecting-not-technology-extends-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/kara-swisher-says-humans-connecting-not-technology-extends-your-life","title":{"rendered":"Kara Swisher Says People Connecting, Not Know-how, Extends Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"article__header--headline-fragments\">\n             <span class=\"article__header--hf1 text-uppercase h3\">Kara Swisher<\/span><br \/>\n             <span class=\"article__header--hf2 text-uppercase h1\">Chatbots Make You Lonelier, Not Less!!!<\/span><br \/>\n             <span class=\"article__header--hf3 text-none h2\">Go Outside, Meet People<\/span><br \/>\n           <\/h2>\n<p>    <!--\/.social-media-container--><\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Published <time class=\"published-datetime\" datetime=\"2026-05-01T13:37:01-07:00\"><br \/>\n               May 1, 2026<br \/>\n              1:37 PM PDT<\/time>\n                                      <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<section id=\"cb-6a57b3731264f0a9509de7eb23c07ed6\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-video-block canvas-video-block-permalink canvas-video-block--default canvas-block-is-first \">\n<div class=\"video-block\">\n<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9\">\n<div id=\"video-player-6b0cf610-0d2c-4a1c-94ed-2b1fe611a0bb-646781661-image-holder\" class=\"ratio ratio-item video-block__image-holder\">\n     <button class=\"ratio-item icon-video--shadow video-block__icon\" id=\"video-player-6b0cf610-0d2c-4a1c-94ed-2b1fe611a0bb-646781661-play-btn\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Play video content<\/span><br \/>\n     <\/button><br \/>\n          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"A.I.\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/1b\/16by9\/2026\/05\/01\/1b0589cbb8734adb8a5942c9bbb70a2c_md.png\" alt=\"050126 kara swisher kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/>\n         <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-6a57b3731264f0a9509de7eb23c07ed6--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-d7a385c513f19a3e441ff221b00108f6\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">\n<p><strong>Kara Swisher<\/strong> has a dire warning about A.I. &#8230; despite the technological miracles it brings to your life, it&#8217;s also fueling a worldwide loneliness epidemic, and it just can&#8217;t replace human interaction.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-d7a385c513f19a3e441ff221b00108f6--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-4f213ec96c6bfe6dc6d90f333c8050d0\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">\n<p>The famed technology journalist is also hosting the new series &#8220;Kara Swisher Wants to Live Forever&#8221; on CNN, and she joined us Friday for a convo on &#8220;TMZ Live&#8221; about the rise of humans befriending A.I. chatbots.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-4f213ec96c6bfe6dc6d90f333c8050d0--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-7a74c32bae3b1abe5e6c668ea85874a7\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-gallery-block canvas-gallery-block-permalink canvas-gallery-block--default \">\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-7a74c32bae3b1abe5e6c668ea85874a7--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-394bd6eb2326f68110b7d37e1775246e\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">\n<p>Kara says she needs to remind people that A.I. isn&#8217;t like human beings &#8230; it&#8217;s a synthetic sycophant desperate to keep users&#8217; attention, not a friend that exists in our three-dimensional world.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-394bd6eb2326f68110b7d37e1775246e--><br \/>\n<a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-302e80e0616e6f31ac905877ad1c35ed\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">\n<p>She says she&#8217;s talked to the parents of kids who have died by suicide after spending all their time building &#8220;relationships&#8221; with these chatbots &#8230; and, she warns about the tech causing cortisol and cognitive issues.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-302e80e0616e6f31ac905877ad1c35ed--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-4908fcac61aec53564bc2f0916c312cb\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-youtube-video-block canvas-youtube-video-block-permalink canvas-youtube-video-block--default \">\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-4908fcac61aec53564bc2f0916c312cb--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-b79a1393ff38110e0e3ff98e9c40aa6c\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">\n<p>Don&#8217;t abandon hope, though &#8230; Kara&#8217;s encouraging folks to get out into the real world &#8230; try mahjong lessons, poker or game nights with friends &#8212; just a few examples &#8212; and maybe even hookup here and there. She says they&#8217;re all great deterrents for loneliness and far more fulfilling than typing away with a synthetic being.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-b79a1393ff38110e0e3ff98e9c40aa6c--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-b9f9634c500a6888c516296f33a4c1cc\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default canvas-block-is-last \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">\n<p>You can get more tips on Kara&#8217;s show, Saturday night on CNN, but the bottom line is &#8230; if you&#8217;re feeling lonely, don&#8217;t seek the cold comfort of a chatbot, get out and meet people IRL!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-b9f9634c500a6888c516296f33a4c1cc--><\/p><\/div>\n<p> <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/05\/01\/kara-swisher-thinks-people-need-to-connect-personally\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kara Swisher Chatbots Make You Lonelier, Not Less!!! Go Outside, Meet People Published May 1, 2026 1:37 PM PDT Play video content Kara Swisher has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":353153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1870,29576,29579,29577,29582,29581,29580,29578],"class_list":["post-353150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a-i","tag-famed-know-how-journalist","tag-kara","tag-kara-swisher","tag-lisa-dickey","tag-nick-swisher","tag-swish","tag-swisher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353152,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353150\/revisions\/353152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}