Sherry Turkle Doesn't Buy the Promise of a Perfect Machine
In a wide-ranging conversation, Kara Swisher interviews Sherry Turkle, MIT professor and author of Artificial Intimacy, about the psychological and societal dangers of forming emotional attachments to AI chatbots. Turkle argues that the shift from social media’s attention economy to AI’
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