Sherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and the founding director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. She is the author of Alone Together, Reclaiming Conversation, and The Empathy Diaries. In September 2026, Turkle published Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines, which traces the impact of AI-mediated communication through the lifecycle—from children’s earliest attachments to end of life decisions.
