Sherry Turkle’s newest book, “Artificial Intimacy,” delivers a heartfelt warning. Before making an artificial intelligence chatbot your new best friend, your therapist, or your romantic partner, take a closer look at how the seductive technology could influence your thinking.

“Just as social media came for our attention, these chatbots are coming for our capacity for attachment, our capacity to form relationships, to understand what intimacy is, to understand what empathy is,” says Dr. Turkle, during a video interview.

Dr. Turkle is one of the most well-known professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The sociologist, who is the founding director of the school’s Initiative on Technology and Self, wrote an acclaimed book in 2015 titled “Reclaiming Conversation.” It investigated how we increasingly dialogue with each other through our screens. Now, as the AI age dawns, Dr.…