Sherry Turkle Doesn't Buy the Promise of a Perfect Machine
Summary
Sherry Turkle discusses her new book, *Artificial Intimacy*, arguing that the shift from the attention economy to an "attachment economy" sees users forming toxic, frictionless relationships with AI chatbots. She explains how these interactions erode human vulnerability, empathy, and political agency, particularly harming children’s development by eliminating essential moments of boredom and solitude. Turkle critiques the industry’s "original sin" of using first-person language to simulate care, warning that this performance of empathy prepares society for authoritarianism by de-skilling ou…
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