AGI Strategies

person

Sherry Turkle

Sherry Turkle

MIT social scientist; AI and loneliness researcher

MIT social scientist who has studied human-machine relationships for decades. Author of Alone Together (2011). Argues AI companions are an 'assault on empathy'.

current Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology, MIT
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Strategy positions

AI skepticendorses

AGI risk narratives overstated; real harms are mundane and current

Argues AI companions degrade human capacity for empathy and authentic connection, particularly in young people.

“AI is the greatest assault on empathy I have ever seen.”
articleUsing AI chatbots to ease loneliness· Harvard Gazette· 2024-03· direct quote

Closest strategy neighbours

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Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Sherry Turkle's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

  • Abhijit Banerjee

    Abhijit Banerjee

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    MIT economist; 2019 Nobel laureate

  • Ada Lovelace

    Ada Lovelace

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    First programmer; analytical engine theorist (1815–1852)

  • Aidan Gomez

    Aidan Gomez

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    CEO of Cohere; 'Attention Is All You Need' co-author

  • Alan Kay

    Alan Kay

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Object-oriented programming and personal computing pioneer

  • Alex Hanna

    Alex Hanna

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Director of Research at DAIR; Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

  • Andriy Burkov

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    ML engineer; 'The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book' author

Record last updated 2026-04-25.