The Decade Ahead: Two Scientists’ Visions for the Future of Technology
summary
Columbia researchers describe concrete interventions: passive smartphone tracking to flag behavioral changes, a claim of 13 mental‑health professionals per 100,000 and ~700,000 suicides yearly to justify scale, and generative AI chat therapy as an accessible treatment layer. Longer‑term work includes brain implants and surgical resection in two clinical trials aiming to cure severe depression, and a caregiving exoskeleton that reproduces Parkinsonian tremor. They demo an echo‑chamber swap idea to expose people to others’ feeds, and raise ethical limits around memory erasure and changing affect.
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- 0:00Intro
- 3:20Technology as an aid
- 8:08Threestep process
- 9:31Shared reality
- 12:27Changing your mindset
- 14:35The slippery slope
- 16:06Play God
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