I speak with SHERRY TURKLE, MIT professor & Founding Director of the MIT Initiative on Technology & Self, author of Alone Together and Reclaiming Conversation, about her new book, ARTIFICIAL INTIMACY: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines. What do we lose by outsourcing emotional needs to machines? How much of the gaps we seek to fill with AI were made worse by social media? Preparing for this conversation, I felt overwhelmed at times by the challenges we face and the power of social media and artificial intimacy to take us away from our only hope, our humanity. You can learn more at sherryturkle.com
