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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.
Disputed (Sep 11, 2026)
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Sherry Turkle, “Chatbots Should Not Use the First Person,” The Atlantic, September 11, 2026.
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Disputed The Atlantic’s Sept. 11, 2026 article contains the exact Turkle wording, but its title is “The Original Sin of AI,” not “Chatbots Should Not Use the First Person.” · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1mo ago
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