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Sherry Turkle

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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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 · 20d ago

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Sweeping bans of anything are hard to enact and enforce, but the risks of generative AI are too great to dismiss bold measures as unfeasible. [...] In the absence of a wholesale ban on all interactions between juveniles and relational AI, a default s...

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