# Human Beings Are Prone to Treat Social Machines as Kindred by Sherry Turkle > “The human has evolved to anthropomorphize. We are on the brink of creating machines so "sociable" in appearance that they will push our evolutionary buttons to treat them as kindred.” > **— Sherry Turkle**, *“Turkle’s Law of Human Vulnerability to An Active Gaze,” Edge Annual Question, 2004* ## Sources and Context - **Direct full source and exact passage:** [“Turkle’s Law of Human Vulnerability to An Active Gaze,” Edge Annual Question, 2004](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10426) — Turkle connects a human tendency to anthropomorphize with her 2004 forecast about sociable machines. The following sentences distinguish apparent social understanding from shared human experience. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/Humans and AIs as Entangled Learning Systems|Humans and AIs as Entangled Learning Systems]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Next Interface Layer|The Next Interface Layer]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/human-machine interaction|human-machine interaction]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/human-machine interaction|human-machine interaction]] - [[wiki/Human Animality|Human Animality]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The human has evolved to anthropomorphize. We are on the brink of creating machines so "sociable" in appearance that they will push our evolutionary buttons to treat them as kindred.” — Sherry Turkle, “Turkle’s Law of Human Vulnerability to An Active Gaze,” Edge Annual Question, 2004 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-sherry-turkle-humans-treat-social-machines-kindred ```