Sherry Turkle on "Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines"
news.harvard.eduSherry Turkle was recently on the Ezra Klein show if you want a good video version [1]. Her latest book (Artificial Intimacy) is very good and an important voice. She's been studying how our tools shape us (after we shaped them) since ELIZA, when she learned that people wanted to be alone with it even though they new it was a rules based system. Something she said on the show was that the attention economy will become the affection economy if Big Ai gets its way.
I first heard her on NPR: What to do when AI says "I love you." We talked to an artificial intimacy expert. [2]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMiR-GxTrtM
[2] https://www.npr.org/2025/07/18/g-s1177-78041/what-to-do-when...
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