{"id":35290,"date":"2025-10-15T05:31:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/aziz-ansari-explains-why-he-doesnt-use-a-smartphone-or-email-and-why-hes-skeptical-of-chatgpt\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T05:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:31:31","slug":"aziz-ansari-explains-why-he-doesnt-use-a-smartphone-or-email-and-why-hes-skeptical-of-chatgpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/aziz-ansari-explains-why-he-doesnt-use-a-smartphone-or-email-and-why-hes-skeptical-of-chatgpt\/","title":{"rendered":"Aziz Ansari explains why he doesn&#8217;t use a smartphone or email &mdash; and why he&#8217;s skeptical of ChatGPT"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/68ef043bcc993f9955d03756?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Aziz Ansari\"\/><figcaption>Aziz Ansari<\/p>\n<p>Theo Wargo\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Aziz Ansari says he still uses a flip phone, doesn&#039;t have email, and is wary of ChatGPT.<\/li>\n<li>&quot;It&#039;s outsourcing critical thinking. It&#039;s making everyone&#039;s opinions kind of the same,&quot; Ansari said of ChatGPT.<\/li>\n<li>It&#039;s not just Hollywood: More people are turning to dumb phones or DIY landlines to cut screen time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In a world glued to screens, Aziz Ansari is choosing the analog life.<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on Tuesday&#039;s episode of the &quot;Good Hang with Amy Poehler&quot; podcast, the comedian spoke about his Luddite ways and why he isn&#039;t a fan of ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I don&#039;t have email. I haven&#039;t had email for, like, 10 years. But I have an assistant,&quot; Ansari told podcast host Amy Poehler.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#039;s not just his inbox that he&#039;s abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I have a flip phone. If I get really lost, I&#039;ve got to either ask people or just call my wife and be like &#039;Hey.&#039; I&#039;ve had to do that before, like, call my wife, and to the point where she&#039;s kind of used to it,&quot; Ansari said.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of using an app to call for an Uber, Ansari says he hails a taxi. If there isn&#039;t one, he&#039;ll call, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Living a low-tech lifestyle has its benefits, Ansari said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It just gives me more space to think. I mean, I heard something about, like, Tarantino doesn&#039;t even have a phone. Chris Nolan doesn&#039;t have a phone. I was like, &#039;Whoa, those guys are able to get a lot of stuff done. Maybe there&#039;s something to it,&#039;&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The comedian says he is also wary of ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#039;s outsourcing critical thinking. It&#039;s making everyone&#039;s opinions kind of the same,&quot; Ansari said.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is AI prone to making mistakes, it reinforces what people already think, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The comedian said he once saw a commercial in which someone asked ChatGPT how to make dinner for a date.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I would rather call someone and ask someone, or maybe have some sort of conversation, a human thing. It just seems like it&#039;s like outsourcing thinking, and it&#039;s like killing some bit of humanity,&quot; Ansari said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to People in September, Ansari said he knows that his ability to live offline comes with a certain level of privilege and isn&#039;t realistic for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But for me, it helps me keep a clear head to help me write and do what&#039;s more important for my job,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>A representative for Ansari did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent by Business Insider outside regular hours.<\/p>\n<p>Ansari isn&#039;t the only celebrity who has spoken about preferring an analog lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2023, Christopher Nolan said he doesn&#039;t carry a smartphone or use email. The filmmaker said he writes scripts on a computer without the internet.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If I&#039;m generating my material and writing my own scripts, being on a smartphone all day wouldn&#039;t be very useful for me,&quot; Nolan told The Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n<p>Dolly Parton said during an October 2023 appearance on &quot;The View&quot; that she still prefers communicating via fax because otherwise, she&#039;d be overwhelmed by all the messages she gets.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;So I never did get into getting involved in all that because it&#039;ll take up too much of my time if I talked to everybody who is trying to get in touch with me,&quot; Parton said.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Christopher Walken told The Wall Street Journal that his relationship with technology is nearly nonexistent.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I only have a satellite dish on my house. So I&#039;ve seen &#039;Severance&#039; on DVDs that they&#039;re good enough to send me. I don&#039;t have a cellphone. I&#039;ve never emailed or, what do you call it, Twittered,&quot; Walken said.<\/p>\n<p>It&#039;s not just Hollywood: In a May story, regular people told Business Insider that they swapped smartphones for dumb phones to wean themselves off their screens and social media.<\/p>\n<p>Some Gen Zs are even chaining their smartphones to a wall \u2014 creating a makeshift landline \u2014and freeing themselves from the urge to scroll.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aziz Ansari Theo Wargo\/Getty Images Aziz Ansari says he still uses a flip phone, doesn&#039;t have email, and is wary of ChatGPT. &quot;It&#039;s outsourcing critical thinking. It&#039;s making everyone&#039;s opinions kind of the same,&quot; Ansari said of ChatGPT. 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