Sherry Turkle — Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines — at the Wharf

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This event will be in partnership with the Electronic Privacy Information Center EPIC https://epic.org/ . From the author of prescient best seller and classic Reclaiming Conversation, Sherry Turkle, comes an urgent warning about how our ever increasing reliance on human like AI chatbots is eroding our capacity for empathy, caring, and the very qualities that make us human. If social media came for our attention, artificial intelligence is now coming for our capacity for attachment. Chatbots that speak to us in a human voice offer themselves as best friends, lovers, and psychotherapists. As of 2025, over 70% of teens and nearly one third of US adults rely on AI for companionship and emotional support, with many preferring these chatbot relationships over human ones. Whe…

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