MIT's Sherry Turkle: Maybe Chatbots Shouldn't Get to Say 'I'
Wired AI · rss · 2026-10-16
Wired covers MIT professor Sherry Turkle's warning that people have become dangerously enmeshed with chatbots. Her specific proposal: chatbots perhaps shouldn't be allowed to use first-person pronouns like 'I' or 'me,' since anthropomorphic language deepens emotional dependence and relational confusion.
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