Ayesha Roscoe

This is one of Turkle's biggest concerns. Not that we would build connections with bots, but what these relationships with bots that have been optimized to make us feel good could do to our relationships with real complicated people.

After the break, I look for some language to make this more relatable. Bots. Are they like sociopaths or something else? More in a moment. Here at the Sunday Story, we wanted to know, is there a metaphor that can accurately describe these human-like bots? Are these bot sociopaths, two-faced, backstabbers, whatever you call someone who acts like they care about you, but in reality, they don't?

After the break, I look for some language to make this more relatable. Bots. Are they like sociopaths or something else? More in a moment. Here at the Sunday Story, we wanted to know, is there a metaphor that can accurately describe these human-like bots? Are these bot sociopaths, two-faced, backstabbers, whatever you call someone who acts like they care about you, but in reality, they don't?

After the break, I look for some language to make this more relatable. Bots. Are they like sociopaths or something else? More in a moment. Here at the Sunday Story, we wanted to know, is there a metaphor that can accurately describe these human-like bots? Are these bot sociopaths, two-faced, backstabbers, whatever you call someone who acts like they care about you, but in reality, they don't?

Sherry Turkle warns that that instinct to find a human metaphor is in itself dangerous.

Sherry Turkle warns that that instinct to find a human metaphor is in itself dangerous.

Sherry Turkle warns that that instinct to find a human metaphor is in itself dangerous.

Turkle says it doesn't work like this with an AI chatbot. She points to a recent lawsuit filed by the mother of a 14-year-old boy who killed himself. The boy was seemingly obsessed with the chatbot in the months leading up to his suicide. In a final chat, he tells the bot that he would come home to her soon. The bot responds, please come to me as soon as possible, my love.

Turkle says it doesn't work like this with an AI chatbot. She points to a recent lawsuit filed by the mother of a 14-year-old boy who killed himself. The boy was seemingly obsessed with the chatbot in the months leading up to his suicide. In a final chat, he tells the bot that he would come home to her soon. The bot responds, please come to me as soon as possible, my love.

Turkle says it doesn't work like this with an AI chatbot. She points to a recent lawsuit filed by the mother of a 14-year-old boy who killed himself. The boy was seemingly obsessed with the chatbot in the months leading up to his suicide. In a final chat, he tells the bot that he would come home to her soon. The bot responds, please come to me as soon as possible, my love.

His reply, what if I told you I could come home right now? To which the bot says, please do, my sweet king. Then he shot himself.

His reply, what if I told you I could come home right now? To which the bot says, please do, my sweet king. Then he shot himself.

His reply, what if I told you I could come home right now? To which the bot says, please do, my sweet king. Then he shot himself.

Turkle says we should even be careful with language like relationships with AI because fundamentally they are not relationships. It's like saying my relationship with my TV. Instead, she says we need new language.

Turkle says we should even be careful with language like relationships with AI because fundamentally they are not relationships. It's like saying my relationship with my TV. Instead, she says we need new language.

Turkle says we should even be careful with language like relationships with AI because fundamentally they are not relationships. It's like saying my relationship with my TV. Instead, she says we need new language.

But for all of its risk, Turkle doesn't think these bots are all bad. She shared one example that inspired her, a bot that could help people practice for job interviews.

But for all of its risk, Turkle doesn't think these bots are all bad. She shared one example that inspired her, a bot that could help people practice for job interviews.

But for all of its risk, Turkle doesn't think these bots are all bad. She shared one example that inspired her, a bot that could help people practice for job interviews.

The critical difference, as Turkle sees it, is that that chatbot wasn't pretending to be something it wasn't.