| International Standard Book Number |
9780316573962
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| International Standard Book Number |
0316573965
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780316612739
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| International Standard Book Number |
0316612731
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
006.301
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| Personal Name |
Turkle, Sherry.
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| Title Statement |
Artificial intimacy : who we become when we talk to machines / Sherry Turkle.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Imprint |
New York : Little Brown & Company, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
xx, 262 pages ; 25 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographic references (pages 225-248) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
I am your person. State of emergency -- Talking to technology through the arc of life. Childhood ; Adolescence ; Identity ; Love ; Work ; Therapy ; Mourning -- You are not my person. Reclaiming the real.
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| Summary, Etc. |
If social media came for our attention, artificial intelligence is now coming for our capacity for attachment. Chatbots that speak to us in a human voice offer themselves as best friends, lovers, and psychotherapists. As of 2025, over 70% of teens and nearly one-third of US adults rely on AI for companionship and emotional support, with many preferring these chatbot relationships over human ones. When we talk to chatbots in these roles, as intimate machines, we accept as sufficient what machines can offer: the mere performance of intimacy, empathy, and love. We begin to think that pretend empathy is empathy enough. We redefine human capacities for care, solitude, and intimacy in terms of what machines can do. Sherry Turkle, the psychologist who pioneered our understanding of human-computer relationships, calls the new culture of chatbots artificial intimacy, our new AI. Turkle has spent decades studying how digital technologies isolate us from one another. Now, in her long-awaited follow-up to Reclaiming Conversation, she offers both a cautionary tale and a roadmap for reclaiming our humanity in the age of AI.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Technological innovations Social aspects.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Love & Romance.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Artificial intelligence Psychological aspects.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Chatbots.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Informational works.
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