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Sherry Turkle: "There's Nobody Home. If You Kill Yourself, the Chatbot Doesn't Care"
Sherry Turkle, MIT professor and licensed clinical psychologist, joins Andrew Phipps ahead of the publication of her new book "Artificial Intimacy" to argue that AI chatbots have shifted from trying to pass the Turing test to passing what she calls the empathy test, and that pretend empathy is quietly being accepted as empathy enough. Sherry shares two of her most striking research stories, a chatbot of herself that turned critical, and an AI of her mother that nearly said something devastating, alongside her research on "de-skilling" in writing, medicine and mathematics, a harrowing case…
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