MIT professor warns people are dangerously enmeshed with chatbots

Summary

MIT professor Sherry Turkle warns that people have become dangerously enmeshed with chatbots. The WIRED article questions whether chatbots should use first-person pronouns such as “I” or “me.”

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1. WIRED

   16 Oct 2026, 15:00 UTCSource ↗

   WIRED reports that MIT professor Sherry Turkle warns people have become dangerously enmeshed with chatbots, and questions whether chatbots should be allowed to say “I” or “me.”