{"product_id":"artificial-intimacy-who-we-become-when-we-talk-to-machines","title":"Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"All around us, people are beguiled by the siren song of artificial intimacy. Chatbots offer inexpensive therapy, friendship, sexual fantasy, and even romantic love. Sherry Turkle's 40 years of groundbreaking research and beautiful writing make her the most qualified member of Team Humanity to call us back to our senses, and to each other.\"\u003c\/p\u003e-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The best thing I've ever read about one of the biggest questions of our time: how will we relate to machines as they become more like us? Sherry Turkle's book is insightful, emotional, rigorous, and deeply human. Read it cover to cover and absorb its wisdom; don't, whatever you do, just ask a bot to summarize it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicholas Thompson, author of The Running Ground\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sherry Turkle, our wisest guide to digital life, has written her most urgent book yet. \u003ci\u003eArtificial Intimacy\u003c\/i\u003e will help you avoid the profound but often hidden threats AI poses to you and your relationships. Read it and share it with all the humans you know.\"\u003c\/p\u003e-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicholas Carr, author of The Shallows\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The preeminent sociologist of smart machines, Sherry Turkle, now writes against the techno-utopianism of our time and the promise of frictionless intimacy, chronicling the distinction between virtual and actual human community and connection.\"\u003c\/p\u003e-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMIchael Sandel, author of The Tyranny of Merit\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A necessary exploration of what happens when we seek the comforts of connection over the demands of relationships. A must-read for anyone engaging with AI today. That just about means all of us.\"\u003c\/p\u003e-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEsther Perel, author and host of Where Should We Begin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sherry Turkle is the exact right person at the exact right time to write us this exact book. A warning of what we must protect in our age of AI and a celebration of what it is to be human, \u003ci\u003e Artificial Intimacy\u003c\/i\u003e it is a love letter to humanity written by a woman of brilliance and heart.\"\u003c\/p\u003e-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePriya Parker, author of The Art of Fighting\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Our relational nature as human beings is being colonized by machines that cleverly exploit our longing for human connection, simulate intimacy, and ultimately entrain us into a world of pretend -- artificial intimacy. May this book reinforce our commitment to trust and inhabit our analog nature as human beings, and resist wholesale digital capture.\"\u003c\/p\u003e-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eJon Kabat-Zinn, author of Wherever You Go, There You Are\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSherry Turkle\u003c\/b\u003e is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and the founding director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. A leading expert in humans' relationship with digital objects, she continues to revolutionize our understanding of the role of technology on psychology and culture. She is the \n\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \n\u003ci\u003eAlone Together, Reclaiming Conversation, \u003c\/i\u003eand \n\u003ci\u003eThe Empathy Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e. Turkle's most recent book is \n\u003ci\u003eArtificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk To Machines \u003c\/i\u003e(Little, Brown September 29, 2026) and is available for preorder now. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTurkle is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship, the Harvard Centennial Medal, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She received a joint doctorate in sociology and personality psychology from Harvard University and is a licensed clinical psychologist. \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A pointed critique of the growing impact of artificial intelligence on human relationships . . . [Turkle] urg[es] readers to question whether these tools enhance or inhibit personal growth. Harrowing and poignant, this timely warning deserves to be widely read.\"\u003c\/p\u003e-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of prescient best seller and classic \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eReclaiming Conversation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e, 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When we talk to chatbots in these roles, as intimate machines, we accept as sufficient what machines can offer: the mere performance of intimacy, empathy, and love. \n\u003ci\u003eWe begin to think that pretend empathy is empathy enough.\u003c\/i\u003e We redefine human capacities for care, solitude, and intimacy in terms of what machines can do. Sherry Turkle, the psychologist who pioneered our understanding of human-computer relationships, calls the new culture of chatbots \n\u003ci\u003eartificial intimacy, our new AI. \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through compelling storytelling, framed by Turkle's decades of experience as a chronicler and analyst of digital culture, \n\u003ci\u003eArtificial Intimacy\u003c\/i\u003e evokes the seductive and beguiling nature of chatbots. They can organize our calendars, plan our travel, or analyze our stock picks, all with an efficiency that outstrips what a person might do. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e And then, they promise to be more--to be our \"perfect\" companion. They will always be there for us, listen to us, and support us--and ask for nothing in return. But these intimate machines, warns Turkle, are producing a generation more alienated, depressed, and lonely than ever before. More than that, we become less equipped to reverse course--machine relationships do not offer practice for getting along with people. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eArtificial Intimacy \u003c\/i\u003eis unique in how it traces our new habit of talking to machines through the lifecycle--from children's earliest attachments to how we face death. But technology, by offering to do everything, teaches us that we neither need nor have the capacity to take risks, have hard conversations, struggle through uncertainty or insecurity, or rely on our own faculties and judgment. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Turkle has spent decades studying how digital technologies isolate us from one another. 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