So pleased to be a WIRED “classic” Eve Sneider. I am reminded that optimism about technology's possibilities can only be sustained if people take action to turn technology into our human purposes — this demands that people clarify these purposes. link.wired.com/view/5bdf4a210…

“Times of change are the times of greatest cultural creativity; everything is infused with new meanings.” Today’s WIRED Classics revisits our 1996 profile of Sherry Turkle, one of the foremost thinkers on the culture of technology and its impact on our lives. wired.com/2008/02/ff-fre…

I’m writing a book on artificial intimacy and talked to The Wall Street Journal reporter Cordilia James about the limitations of pretend empathy. Simulated thinking may be thinking, simulated feeling is not feeling, and simulated love is not love. wsj.com/articles/when-…

So thrilled to be awarded this grant to study the emotional effects of generative AI. MIT scholars awarded seed grants to probe the social implications of generative AI | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology news.mit.edu/2023/mit-schol…

A brave podcast. I’m looking forward.

Your help is needed with my research on people’s emotional connections with generative AI. If you use AI for conversations, advice, or companionship, my team would love to talk to you. Participation is confidential and you can stop at any time. Learn more sherryturkle.com/talking-to-tec….

Loved the shout out in the Guardian for my article on "Silicon Valley Fairy Dust," on the ideology of Silicon Valley. It seems more relevant now than ever. crookedtimber.org/2023/11/06/sil…

It was such an honor to keynote HarvardSTS's conference on Artificial Intelligence and Democracy. I loved the discussion with Sheila Jasonoff and David Kennedy.  And the pertinent questions from the audience. A highlight of my year!

When I spoke at the HarvardSTS Kennedy School conference on AI and Democracy. I spoke on Artificial Intimacy - our new AI. I asked, “Who are we becoming when our conversation partners are machines?” As individuals? In relationships? As citizens? news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…

Such a turning point interview Aspen Ideas as I considered empathy and our divided country. Empathy has been misunderstood. It’s not a strategy for agreement but also a strategy for embracing radical differences. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

I always look forward to conversations with Robert Siegal! And his other guests are awesome! Brian Merchant Jean Twenge (author of GENERATIONS, iGEN)

We celebrate a return to the warmth of the voice, but why don’t we want to have a conversation? nytimes.com/2024/02/23/sty…

This article surveys the field of artificial intimacy and empathy. In it, I insist: “It’s a sad moment when we think that being lonely can be fixed by an interaction with something that has no idea about what it is to be born, about what it is to die.” newscientist.com/article/mg2613…

When chatbots perform empathy, people begin to feel that the performance of empathy is empathy enough. The technology challenges us to assert ourselves and our human values, which means that we have to figure out what those values are. news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…

The crisis in conversation has taken a new turn: first we talked to each other through our machines, now, chatbots tempt us to talk to machines … to seek empathy from objects that can only offer its performance.

Chatbots can only deliver pretend empathy. We are diminished when we take pretend empathy as empathy enough. npr.org/2026/01/01/119…

When we talk to conversational machines, treating them with respect is part of our self-care as humans. scientificamerican.com/article/should…

I always love a conversation with the amazing Manoush Zomorodi. This is the extended version of our interview about my research on artificial intimacy that appeared on TED Radio Hour. Who do we become when we talk to machines, n.pr/3SzvhuC.