Sherry Turkle with Kate Zernike

Sherry Turkle presents Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines

In conversation with Kate Zernike

Wine reception to follow

New York Times bestselling author Sherry Turkle presents Artificial Intimacy, the long-awaited follow-up to Reclaiming Conversation, an urgent warning about how our ever-increasing reliance on human-like AI chatbots is eroding our capacity for empathy, caring, and the very qualities that make us human. Through compelling storytelling, framed by Turkle’s decades of experience as a chronicler and analyst of digital culture, Artificial Intimacy evokes the seductive and beguiling nature of chatbots. They will always be there for us, listen to us, and support us—and ask for nothing in return. But these intimate machines, warns Turkle, are producing a generation more alienated, depressed, and lonely than ever before. Offering both a cautionary tale and a roadmap for reclaiming our humanity in the age of AI, Turkle reads from and discusses the book with Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Kate Zernike, before an audience Q&A and signing.