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686. The Risk of ‘Artificial Intimacy’ with Sherry Turkle
What do we lose when we swap our source for connection and intimacy from a human to an AI chatbot? Is there a significant psychological impact? Sherry Turkle is a professor of social studies of science and technology at MIT and the founding director of MIT’s Initiative on Technology and Self. Her work specializes in the psychological and social impact of technology, with books like Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, and her latest book Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to…
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