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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.
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 setting that deters anthropomorphizing a bot makes good sense.
AI Verified (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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Ban AI companion chatbots for minors under 18
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AI Verified Turkle’s article directly addresses regulating relational AI for juveniles, including a wholesale ban and an alternative default setting, so it is relevant to the linked minor-chatbot-ban statement. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 11min ago
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AI Verified Recorded answer is abstain. Turkle discusses a wholesale ban as a difficult option but conditionally recommends a default setting if no ban exists; the quote expresses a mixed/conditional position rather than clear support or opposition. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 11min ago

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AI Verified Indexed canonical Atlantic article text identifies Sherry Turkle as author and contains both stored passages, including the wording about sweeping bans and the default setting for relational AI. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 12min ago
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