James R. Doty, MD | Mental Healthcare Innovations Summit at Stanford Medicine
because if you are able to address one’s anxiety and one’s stress not in the context of therapy but in the context of having the ability to talk to a friend that is very powerful and this has been shown in a variety of studies so imagine a situation where we have a phone app that assesses your mental state while you’re utilizing it and it tracks that and then you created a AI generated conversational AI focused on compassion Focus dialogue and that’s shared with you via a human Avatar and it can be extraordinarily powerful the reason is as has been mentioned uh most people are in fear of judgment that’s what causes so much anxiety it’s fear that people are going to judge us and we’re not going to be worthy so having a avatar that accepts you for who you are is available for you 24 7. versus having to wait to the therapist to see them for a week or so when you’re already boiling over with Stress and Anxiety but imagine you can talk to it anytime even at midnight and it just begins a conversation with you now I’m trying to create an MVP on this and this is a very complicated task but I hope that the advantage of this is one that not only is it efficacious but the reality is there are not enough therapists for us to all have a therapist and uh by giving people a tool that they see as a friend that is infinitely scalable can be modified in terms of culture and speaks innumerable languages then I think this is potentially a solution that can be highly beneficial to a lot of people
James R. Doty M.D. is a compassion researcher, neuroscientist, neurosurgeon, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is the founding director of the Stanford Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE), and former CEO of Accuray (NASDAQ:ARAY). Dr. Doty is the New York Times bestselling author of Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discovery the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart, and the founder of Happi AI, a data-driven tech startup that uses artificial intelligence and neuroscience to generate a personalized virtual friend to help people with stress, anxiety & depression.
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