Research · Updated 16 Oct, 08:30 pm IST
MIT scholar warns chatbots' intimacy harms human relationships
Why it matters for readers: If you use chatbots, the book offers reasons to reflect on when interacting with machines might replace human contact.
- Sherry Turkle wrote a book, Artificial Intimacy, that warns about people treating machines as tutors, friends, and lovers.1
- Turkle moved from neutral research to urgent critique after interviews she conducted during the pandemic.1
- She frames the issue as a broad social danger and compares her aim to other books that awakened public concern about crises.1
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