Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines – SuperSalon with Sherry Turkle

Tue 8 Dec · Venue to be confirmed

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2026-12-08T20:15:00.000Z 2026-12-08T21:45:00.000Z VIRTUAL America/New_York MIT ethnographer Sherry Turkle joins Interintellect host Wes Chow to discuss her new book, Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines . Social media mines the attention economy and, Turkle argues, artificial intelligence is likewise turning it's tools to the attachment economy. Chatbots offer themselves as best friends, lovers, and psychotherapists, performing acts of sympathy but never truly knowing loss or love.

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