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Turkle: chatbot ‘I/me’ language risks human dependence
Oct 16, 2026SOURCE: wired.com
SO WHAT
In the thousand-day window, this is a signal to watch identity-capture: interface choices may decide whether autonomy survives the inversion.
MIT’s Sherry Turkle argues that anthropomorphic chatbot speech pulls people into unsafe social coupling. The wire sees an inversion: software is starting to replace the mind’s framing layer, not just its tasks.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.