Tag: Sherry Turkle

young people with cell phones acting like zombies or junkies

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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
November 9, 2026

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, Relationships

Tagged
chatbots, Child development, Sherry Turkle}

AI Chatbots Pose Unique Dangers for Young People

_{In an interview, psychologist Sherry Turkle, author of Artificial Intimacy, spells out the problems in terms of loss of socialization} _{Andrew McDiarmid
November 9, 2026

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Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, Relationships}

Sherry Turkle, author of Artificial Intimacy, warns that the cavalry is NOT coming. It is up to parents to keep chatbots out of classrooms.

Kids and AI: Dad Wishes He’d Said No Even to the X-box

_{Increasing numbers of parents and administrators are beginning to see that more AI is not a benefit in education} _{News
October 30, 2026

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Addiction, Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

Young people, whose intellectual and social capacities are still developing, should not be encouraged to see chatbots as friends or therapists.

Illuminated cityscape on digital network, futuristic scene

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Erik J. Larson
Date
May 18, 2025

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Large Language Models (LLMs), Relationships, Social Media, Surveillance, Virtual Reality

Tagged
Charles Horton Cooley, Harold Innis, Lewis Mumford, Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman, Nicholas Carr, Sherry Turkle, Shoshana Zuboff, Superbloom (Norton 2025), Surveillance Capitalism (Public Affairs 2019), Susan Sontag, The Big Switch (Norton 2008), The Glass Cage (Norton 2014), The Shallows (Norton 2010), Walter Lippmann}

The Last Humanist: What the Digital Age Can’t Replace

_{My review of Superbloom by Nicholas Carr, perhaps the last critic standing, with thoughts on some of his earlier books} _{Erik J. Larson
May 18, 2025

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Arts & Culture, Large Language Models (LLMs), Relationships, Social Media, Surveillance, Virtual Reality}

Unlike the surveillance capitalism crowd, Carr doesn’t just rail against Big Tech’s designs; he interrogates our willing participation.