Me:chine Dialogues

Sherry Turkle
Artificial intimacy, agency and the future of the self
What happens when machines begin to occupy the roles of friends, mentors, therapists and companions, and what might we lose when assistance becomes substitution?

Holly Herndon
AI, creativity and the synthetic self
A conversation about voice, identity, creative agency and what changes when AI becomes something we make with rather than simply use.

Chase Hughes
Influence, identity and human agency
How behaviour can be read, shaped and influenced, and what that means for autonomy and the increasingly machine-readable self.

Lee Rainie
Technology, resilience and the human future
How people adapt to technological change, where human resilience comes from, and what kinds of capability matter when systems change faster than individuals do.

Pattie Maes & Pat Pataranutaporn
Future You, self-continuity and synthetic future selves
Can an AI-generated future self strengthen our relationship with who we might become, or does synthetic mentoring change the process through which a future self is formed?

Rob Waugh
Fake experts and the rise of synthetic media selves
What happens when fabricated digital identities acquire profiles, authority and a voice in the media without any real person behind them.

Some of these conversations were originally recorded for The Future of You.

They are included here because they anticipated questions now central to Me:chine: what happens when technology can increasingly read, model, predict, represent and participate in the self?