Well-Being, AI, and You
summary
Argues for an operating system for well-being that lets apps coordinate instead of competing, built from three components: database of you (a personal timeline integrating runs, purchases, photos), attention services (recommendation systems and planners) and connection tools (relationship managers). Demonstrates a working personal-timeline prototype released on GitHub with a dashboard and a synthetic-timeline dataset (ACL paper), cites LLMs + retrieval-augmented generation and neural-database ideas as core tools, notes 50 content-violation categories at Facebook and privacy options like encrypted on-device storage.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:46Database theory to well-being AI
- 8:08OSwell operating system
- 11:16OSwell components
- 15:12Human values in AI
- 19:05The database of you
- 26:07Privacy and ethics of personal data
- 33:30Data ownership and control
- 37:03Capturing experiences with AI
- 38:27Querying personal timelines
- 42:18Psychology of recommendations
- 44:03Closing and Q&A
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