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Comment by Sherry Turkle

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MIT professor and founding director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self; author on technology and human relationships.
In the absence of a wholesale ban on all interactions between juveniles and relational AI, a default setting that deters anthropomorphizing a bot makes good sense.
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Sherry Turkle, “Chatbots Should Not Use the First Person,” The Atlantic, September 11, 2026.
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