Live with Kara Swisher

October 10, 2024 • by Marc Airhart

The award-winning author of “Burn Book” shares her perspectives on artificial intelligence, social media, big tech and government regulation.

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Kara Swisher. Photo credit: © Philip Montgomery / New York Magazine.


Kara Swisher, the one-of-a-kind tech reporter, podcaster and book author, dropped by The University of Texas at Austin’s Cactus Café for a spirited conversation with a live audience about her concerns over the concentration of power in a few big tech companies, the capacity of tech to be used as both a tool and a weapon, her embrace of self-driving cars and her belief that AI will never replace human creativity. 

A post by Kara Swisher on social media platform Threads that shows two photos from a live event and a comment that reads "Packed gang at UT Austin at the Cactus Cafe to talk Burn Book and AI. Great questions!
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Casey Boyle (left), professor of rhetoric and writing at The University of Texas at Austin, interviews tech reporter Kara Swisher. Photo courtesy of Dan Oppenheimer.

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