Mary Martin

our preoccupation with facts – the information that links us to each other – perhaps causes us to disregard other ways of understanding meaning in our relationships, such as touch, intuition and facial expressions.

This engineered ease of consumption reduces oral and digestive effort and diminishes natural signals of fullness (i.e., vanishing caloric density), signaling to the brain that fewer calories are being consumed and encouraging greater intake

These findings are consistent with research demonstrating that mindfulness meditation increases positive emotions while decreasing negative and anxious emotions.

Adverse events were not seen as trauma, nor necessarily as having effects beyond the immediate agitation and subsequent sense making.

But great technological innovations always come with tradeoffs, and the shift to AI therapy has deeper implications than 1 million mental health professionals potentially losing their jobs. AI therapists, when normalized, have the potential to reshape how we understand intimacy, vulnerability, and what it means to connect.

Two weeks of 20-minute yoga nidra sessions led to a higher percentage of delta-waves in deep sleep and better memory, decision-making, and abstraction

This paper aims to dissect the phenomenon of AI hype in light of its core mechanisms, drawing comparisons between the current wave and historical episodes of AI hype, concluding that the current hype is historically unmatched in terms of magnitude, scale and planetary and social costs. We identify and discuss socio-technical mechanisms fueling AI... See more

This report offers an important ‘link in the chain’ to further understanding the opportunities and limitations for public participation in AI, and we hope the findings will shape and influence industry practice in this area.