Tag: sherry_turkle

Media Monitor: WIRED Backchannel Spotlights MIT Professor's Warning on Chatbot Reliance

16 Oct 2026 11:01 a.m. · Source: WIRED Backchannel

WIRED's Backchannel reports MIT professor Sherry Turkle warns in a new book that people have become dangerously enmeshed with chatbots, calling it a state of emergency for humanity.

Science & Technology Media Business Artificial Intelligence Computers and Internet Social Issues Digital and Print Publishing Sherry Turkle WIRED Backchannel Artificial Intimacy chatbots MIT OpenAI Sam Altman
Sherry Turkle Warns of Deep Harm in 'Fundamental Lie We're Telling Ourselves'

15 Oct 2026 7:01 a.m.

Harvard Gazette highlights Sherry Turkle's warning on technology's deep harm, a Nobel laureate's path to brain research, primitive oxygen in meteorites, and A.R.T.'s new Blavatnik Theater.

Science & Technology Health Entertainment Education Medical Science Astronomy and Space Film and TV Social Issues Sherry Turkle Harvard University Karl Deisseroth Meteorites Blavatnik Theater American Repertory Theater Paula A. Johnson