Why you shouldn’t fall in love with AI

Below, Sherry Turkle shares five key insights from her new book, Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines. Sherry is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and the founding director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. She is also the New York Times bestselling author of Alone Together, Reclaiming Conversation, and The Empathy Diaries. What’s the Big Idea? AI can simulate empat...