What Really Matters and the Future of Humanity : At the intersection of the Digital and Analog Worlds: (Session 2)

RECORDED LIVE · OCTOBER 14, 2026 · NEW YORK CITY

This conversation between Sherry Turkle and Jon Kabat-Zinn explores how artificial intimacy is reshaping our relationships, our attention, and what it means to be human in a hyperconnected world.

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SESSION 01 — Mindfulness in the Digital Age
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SESSION 03 — Artificial Intimacy, the unedited live recording

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Hosted by Steve Stein of WisdomFeed Publishing

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We are grateful to Sherry Turkle and Jon Kabat-Zinn for lending their expertise and insights to this second installment of an important discussion series. WisdomFeed founder Steve Stein is proud to host and produce this nuanced conversation that is essential for anyone concerned with the future of human interaction in the technological era.

We urge you to listen to this crucial new program, “What Really Matters and The Future of Humanity, Session 2 with Jon Kabat-Zinn and Sherry Turkle” to deepen your understanding of these issues. Your perspective on technology’s role in our lives may be forever changed.

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Artificial Intimacy

Who We Become When We Talk To Machines

Sherry Turkle and Jon Kabat-Zinn in Conversation

From the conversation

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Intimacy without vulnerability is not intimacy at all.

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Social media came for your attention. Generative AI and chatbots come for your capacity for attachment.

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It really needs to be sounded not as a kind of anti-technology, but as a kind of pro-humanity.

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The karmic assignment for humanity now, is to become a sangha of human community and take care of the Earth, take care of each other, and take care of the technology in such a way that we’re the masters of the technology.

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Chatbot might always be available to talk to you. But it can’t show up at your door with a bowl of chicken soup if you’re not feeling well.