Future You: A Dialog with an AI-Generated Future Self Reduces Nervousness, Unfavorable Feelings, and Will increase Future Self-Continuity
Authors: Pat Pataranutaporn, Kavin Winson, Peggy Yin, Auttasak Lapapirojn, Pichayoot Ouppaphan, Monchai Lertsutthiwong, Pattie Maes, Hal Hershfield
Summary: We introduce “Future You,” an interactive, temporary, single-session, digital chat intervention designed to enhance future self-continuity — the diploma of connection a person feels with a temporally distant future self — a attribute that’s positively associated to psychological well being and wellbeing. Our system permits customers to speak with a relatable but AI-powered digital model of their future selves that’s tuned to their future targets and private qualities. To make the dialog reasonable, the system generates a “artificial reminiscence” — a singular backstory for every person — that creates a throughline between the person’s current age (between 18–30) and their life at age 60. The “Future You” character additionally adopts the persona of an age-progressed picture of the person’s current self. After a quick interplay with the “Future You” character, customers reported decreased anxiousness, and elevated future self-continuity. That is the primary examine efficiently demonstrating the usage of personalised AI-generated characters to enhance customers’ future self-continuity and wellbeing