Cardinal & Gray Society | Artificial Intimacy: Who Do We Become When We Talk to Machines?

Описание: Members of the Cardinal & Gray Society, Emma Rogers Society, and School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) alumni are invited to hear from Sherry Turkle, the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society. In this live webcast from April 30, 2025, she discusses her work at the intersection of psychology and AI and its effects on human connection. 

Professor Turkle is the founding director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. She is an expert on culture, therapy, mobile technology, social networking, affective computing, sociable robotics, and Generative AI. Her most recent book, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir, ties together her personal story with her research on technology, empathy, and ethics. Her lecture will be a preview of an upcoming book on artificial intimacy. 

This conversation was moderated by Heather Paxson, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Anthropology.

Heather Paxson is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) Associate Dean for Faculty. Her research has investigated how people craft a sense of themselves as ethical beings through daily activities having to do with food and family. Her most recent book, Eating Beside Ourselves: Thresholds of Food and Bodies, is an edited volume that explores the unexpected connections made through eating and being eaten.