#501 — The Performance of Empathy

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Sherry, thanks for joining me. My pleasure. It's great to finally connect with you. I I don't uh am I right in thinking that we have not met anywhere, not at a TED conference or No, I think this is the first time. Okay. Well, uh well great. Well I've been an admirer of your um Yeah, the perspective you've given on technology for uh many years now. You're you've written many books. Uh the latest is Artificial Intimacy, Who We Become When We Talk to Machines.

And we'll get to AI, which is your focus there, but I mean you you've been thinking about our relationship to technology you know, i as instantiated by computers and smartphones and social media. For a long time. If you were gonna compare

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