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ADHD, Executive Functions, and AI: A New Era in Treatment

Learn how AI could revolutionize ADHD management by supporting ineffective executive functioning skills. AI and other technologies show promise in helping individuals with ADHD.

Learn how AI could revolutionize ADHD management by supporting ineffective executive functioning skills. AI and other technologies show promise in helping individuals with ADHD.

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Evolutionary Perspectives and Women Leading the Way in AI

From an evolutionary standpoint, women’s leadership traits can be viewed as extensions of roles that females have played throughout human and animal history.

From an evolutionary standpoint, women’s leadership traits can be viewed as extensions of roles that females have played throughout human and animal history.

Women's Leadership in the Era of Hybrid Intelligence

Explore how neuroscience and evolutionary biology shed light on women’s potential to lead in a hybrid intelligence framework.

Explore how neuroscience and evolutionary biology shed light on women’s potential to lead in a hybrid intelligence framework.

Imitation Without Desire: AI and the Digital Simulacra

AI mirrors our borrowed desires so perfectly it makes us wonder what's truly ours—and what's just imitation.

AI mirrors our borrowed desires so perfectly it makes us wonder what's truly ours—and what's just imitation.

Can AI Outthink Our Silence?

AI is reshaping deep thought—not by silencing the mind, but by expanding it, turning introspection into an interactive, ever-evolving dialogue with itself.

AI is reshaping deep thought—not by silencing the mind, but by expanding it, turning introspection into an interactive, ever-evolving dialogue with itself.

How AI Could Shape Our Relationships and Social Interactions

Does interacting with AI change how we interact with each other? AI could lead to emotional dependence and change our social expectations.

Does interacting with AI change how we interact with each other? AI could lead to emotional dependence and change our social expectations.

AI Shifts Search Engines to Thought Engines

Artificial intelligence turns static search engines into thought-shaping forces that subtly guide how we think, but who’s in control?

Artificial intelligence turns static search engines into thought-shaping forces that subtly guide how we think, but who’s in control?

AI for Good? AI Finds Lasting Peace in Unexpected Places

Can AI measure peace? Research shows peaceful nations focus on daily life, not politics—offering a new way to track and foster stability in real time.

Can AI measure peace? Research shows peaceful nations focus on daily life, not politics—offering a new way to track and foster stability in real time.

Can Humanoid Robots Make Your 2030 Life Better?

Imagine waking up in 2030 to a humanoid robot preparing your breakfast in a perfect way. Will it simplify life or introduce new challenges?

Imagine waking up in 2030 to a humanoid robot preparing your breakfast in a perfect way. Will it simplify life or introduce new challenges?

AI’s Empathy Tightrope: Balance or Bust?

AI may be rewiring empathy’s circuitry—amplifying some emotions, muting others, and reshaping the balance of human connection.

AI may be rewiring empathy’s circuitry—amplifying some emotions, muting others, and reshaping the balance of human connection.

You Are Not a Brain in a Vat

Personal Perspective: The tech bros are touting the idea that we live in a simulation. It's demonstrably false. Why do they push this nonsense? Why now?

Personal Perspective: The tech bros are touting the idea that we live in a simulation. It's demonstrably false. Why do they push this nonsense? Why now?

DeepSeek: Is This a “Sputnik Moment”?

The recent release of a new AI model triggered a tech stock tumble. Did this “Sputnik moment” set off an AI tech race, and are we ready for the AI-human relationships of tomorrow?

The recent release of a new AI model triggered a tech stock tumble. Did this “Sputnik moment” set off an AI tech race, and are we ready for the AI-human relationships of tomorrow?

From Green Lights to Red Flags

We make countless daily decisions, some as small as picking what to eat. Some decisions, like stepping aside to avoid bumping into someone, feel automatic, but are they?

We make countless daily decisions, some as small as picking what to eat. Some decisions, like stepping aside to avoid bumping into someone, feel automatic, but are they?

AI's Empathy Apocalypse

Can AI’s empathy edge make us better humans, or will it tip society into chaos?

Can AI’s empathy edge make us better humans, or will it tip society into chaos?

4 Ways to Avoid AI Bias Amplification

We can move beyond biased boxes that constrain human potential and technological innovation. It's an urgent endeavor. Today’s minds will shape tomorrow’s algorithms.

We can move beyond biased boxes that constrain human potential and technological innovation. It's an urgent endeavor. Today’s minds will shape tomorrow’s algorithms.

Technology’s Invisible Influence

Failing to recognize that we are easily manipulated by technology makes us less powerful and easier to exploit.

Failing to recognize that we are easily manipulated by technology makes us less powerful and easier to exploit.

When Love Meets the Machine

AI is revolutionizing love—personalizing relationships, creating synthetic partners, and promising perfection. But it may erode authenticity and weaken emotional growth

AI is revolutionizing love—personalizing relationships, creating synthetic partners, and promising perfection. But it may erode authenticity and weaken emotional growth

AI and the Empathy Economy

As AI-driven empathy becomes a product, is it really a bridge to deeper human connection or a business built on emotional engagement?

As AI-driven empathy becomes a product, is it really a bridge to deeper human connection or a business built on emotional engagement?

Are AI Outputs Rational or Not?

AI can generate creative ideas, but can it make rational decisions? This post explores AI's strengths, limitations, and the role of human oversight in decision-making.

AI can generate creative ideas, but can it make rational decisions? This post explores AI's strengths, limitations, and the role of human oversight in decision-making.

Can Artificial Intelligence Make Healthcare Human Again?

Healthcare must balance the use of AI with the need for human connection. Human oversight is needed to help make sure that these tools are used ethically and equitably.

Healthcare must balance the use of AI with the need for human connection. Human oversight is needed to help make sure that these tools are used ethically and equitably.

When Your Therapist Is an Algorithm: Risks of AI Counseling

You may confess your deepest fears to a chatbot that never judges you. But what happens when an algorithm becomes your closest confidant? Consider the dark side of AI “empathy.”

You may confess your deepest fears to a chatbot that never judges you. But what happens when an algorithm becomes your closest confidant? Consider the dark side of AI “empathy.”

The Digital Garden

Our brains are wired for negativity, but in the digital age, it’s time to rewire. Here’s how.

Our brains are wired for negativity, but in the digital age, it’s time to rewire. Here’s how.

AI and the Asymptote of Consciousness

AI may never be truly conscious, but if it gets infinitely close, that closeness alone may be enough to make us believe.

AI may never be truly conscious, but if it gets infinitely close, that closeness alone may be enough to make us believe.

The Future of Your Mental Health on Artificial Intelligence

Are you concerned about how artificial intelligence will impact your mental health? Here's how we can utilize AI in safe and productive ways.

Are you concerned about how artificial intelligence will impact your mental health? Here's how we can utilize AI in safe and productive ways.

The Thought Architecture of the Cognitive Age

AI is reshaping intelligence, not by replacing humans, but by redefining how we engage with knowledge.

AI is reshaping intelligence, not by replacing humans, but by redefining how we engage with knowledge.

4 Questions to Design Your Relationship With AI

Four basic questions can help us envision and navigate what the relationship of AI and NI—natural intelligence—could and should look like.

Four basic questions can help us envision and navigate what the relationship of AI and NI—natural intelligence—could and should look like.

Therapy Through the Ages: From 2015 to 2035

Therapy in 2015 was a couch and a chat. In 2035, it might be a headset and an AI. Ready to see how far we’ve come and where we are going?

Therapy in 2015 was a couch and a chat. In 2035, it might be a headset and an AI. Ready to see how far we’ve come and where we are going?