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Generative AI and the ARC of Happiness – Dr Paul Marsden

Freedom Matters

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The Importance of Technology in Well-Being

Technology has a fantastic opportunity to increase people's autonomy. But technology can also undermine our arc of happiness and undermine our sensible autonomy, relatedness and competence. I feel like most people in the research that I've recently done, the first thing you touch in the morning is not another human being. It's a bit of silicon. And what does technology do when we have more screen time rather than actual human time face-to-face time? So it really is part of our human psyche, this idea of being competent. These three things drive our well-being. Once you've got that lens, you can apply it.

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