Sherry Turkle’s new book argues chatbots shouldn’t speak in the first person
In an interview about her book Artificial Intimacy, MIT social scientist Sherry Turkle warns that growing emotional reliance on chatbots risks eroding human connection; she specifically argues for banning chatbots from using first‑person pronouns and criticizes the ‘human in the loop’ framing as often cosmetic. The book is framed as a polemic urging public attention to the intimate harms of AI amid widespread chatbot use.