Why Machines Will Never Feel Empathy: A Q&A With MIT’s Sherry Turkle
The pathbreaking MIT professor on her new memoir, and the past, present, and future of our efforts to make technology feel human
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11 min readMar 16, 2021
In the fall of 1976, Sherry Turkle was recruited to the faculty of MIT to join what would soon become the program on Science…