{"product_id":"artificial-intimacy-1","title":"Artificial Intimacy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"In a time in which the ways we communicate and connect are constantly changing, and not always for the better, Sherry Turkle provides a much needed voice of caution and reason to help explain what the f*** is going on.\" \u003cbr\u003eAziz Ansari on \u003ci\u003eReclaiming Conversation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSocial media came for our attention - now Chatbots are coming for our relationships. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNearly one-third of adults now turn to AI programmes like ChatGPT for companionship. For Gen Z, the figures are even more stark: eight out of ten say they could form a deep emotional attachment with a machine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's not hard to see why. Chatbots offer the fantasy of the perfect partner: endlessly available, endlessly attentive, always affirming. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut as MIT professor Sherry Turkle discovers by speaking to people who use chatbots as confidants, therapists, carers and lovers, these hallucinatory bonds come at great cost. The more we ask machines to care for us, the less we expect from - and give to - other people. AI deepens the loneliness it claims to cure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor decades, Turkle has been the leading voice on how digital technologies erode connection. Now, blending vivid storytelling with sharp cultural critique, she turns her attention to a technology that has convinced so many that the performance of empathy is empathy enough. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssential reading for parents and children, clinicians and patients, managers and employees, \u003ci\u003eArtificial Intimacy \u003c\/i\u003eoffers both a cautionary tale and a roadmap for being human in the age of AI.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57258572480856,"sku":"9780349136912","price":27.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/artificial-intimacy-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}