Sherry Turkle on Family, Artificial Intelligence, and the Empathy Diaries

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🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Psychologist and author Sherry Turkle of MIT talks about her book, The Empathy Diaries, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. The Empathy Diaries is a memoir about Turkle's secretive family and how that secrecy turned Turkle into an acute observer, skilled at revealing the story behind the story. She also chronicles the early days of artificial intelligence and the evolution of the computer. Topics in this conversation include the challenges of family, the role of technology in our lives, the limits of artificial intelligence, and the importance of Bambi.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics
0:07.0	and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:13.0	Institution.
0:14.0	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links on the
0:19.0	information related to today's conversation.
0:21.0	You'll also find our archives, with every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:29.8	We'd love to hear from you.
0:33.8	Today is February 19, 2021.
0:39.8	My guest is Sherry Terkel.
0:42.4	She is the Abby Rockefeller-Moseye Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology
0:48.2	in the Program and Science Technology and Society at MIT, the founding director of the MIT
0:53.2	initiative on technology and self.
0:55.7	Her latest book is the Empathy Diaries of Memoir.
0:59.3	She's also the author of Reclaiming Conversation, the Power of Talk in a Digital Age.
1:04.1	I'm hoping our conversation today will set her on empathy, conversation, self, whatever
1:09.3	else comes up along the way.
1:11.0	There may be adult themes to our conversation, so heads up to parents, listening with children.
1:15.6	Sherry, welcome to econtalk.
1:17.1	It's such a pleasure.
1:19.3	The Empathy Diaries, your memoir, is an incredibly powerful book about being a human being,
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