Sherry Turkle
professor, MIT · MIT professor · sociologist; author of Artificial Intimacy
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“when you turn away from it, it doesn't care if you cook dinner or commit suicide”
“there's no intimacy without vulnerability, and we're kind of deskilling ourselves from the capacity to have intimacy by getting into these relationships”
“children and the elderly need to be protected from these machines rather than be seen as their most probable consumers”
“just take a breath and say no chatbots for babies, no chat bots in schools”
“An AI won't ever replace human conversation. It’s really not afraid of death, it’s not afraid of illness, it's not afraid of pain, it doesn't love its children, and it doesn't care if you kill yourself or make dinner.”
“When they use that term, it means the human has been taken out of the productive process and is there to do some sort of cleanup work, to catch the hallucinations or things the AI doesn’t see.”
“If there's a crisis of loneliness, it's because we're abandoning each other. Give me one data center, and I will turn it into resources for the elderly.”
“The original sin of these objects is they speak in the first person and they say they care about you and that's how they hook you.”
“social media came for attention and chatbots come for our capacity for attachment.”
“I think it's a nightmare. I think it is absolutely clear and present danger”
In the Base
Every entry they appear in.
Artificial Intimacy: When Machines Pursue Our Attachment (with Sherry Turkle)
In a podcast interview with host Gus Docker, MIT professor Sherry Turkle argues that chatbots built to seem caring exploit human vulnerability, especially in children and the elderly. Turkle calls for no chatbots for babies or in schools, and for rebuilding physical communities.
Maybe Chatbots Shouldn’t Get to Say ‘I’ or ‘Me’
In a Q&A with Wired's Steven Levy about the new book Artificial Intimacy, MIT professor Sherry Turkle argues that chatbots should be barred from speaking in the first person, and criticises the phrase "human in the loop" and reliance on AI for emotional support.
The Disorienting Age of 'Artificial Intimacy' | The Ezra Klein Show
In a 75-minute interview, Ezra Klein and sociologist Sherry Turkle debate chatbot companionship. Turkle argues that machines claiming to care exploit human vulnerability, especially in children and older people; Klein presses the case for benefits and warns of profit pressure.