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Your Future You: An Intelligent Conversational Agent to Increase Future Orientation and Decrease Self-defeating Behavior

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Your Future You: An Intelligent Conversational Agent to Increase Future Orientation and Decrease Self-defeating Behavior This PoC action harnesses the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance future orientation and mental well-being, and to mitigate self-defeating behaviors. Building on recent evidence that future-oriented thinking —a key factor in academic performance, health, wealth, and goal achievement— can be stimulated, we aim to address the scaling and impact-related challenges of existing interventions. Leveraging the power of AI-powered large language models (LLMs), our proposed solution is to develop an intelligent conversational agent that allows for meaningful interaction with one's future self. This agent will utilize user-specific inputs —such as personality traits and other individual characteristics— to create a backstory of their personal history, i.e., a synthetic memory, and enable a highly personalized and relatable conversation between users and their future, i.e., 10-year older, self. Frequent dialogues with the

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award

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SIGNED

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EU

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150000

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EUR