Wellonytes, welcome back to your weekly dose of AI 🧠⚡.

This issue, we're peeling back the silicon to reveal what’s really powering AI, it’s elbow grease. Next we’ll discover five truths that’ll recalibrate your understanding of AI and we will talk to dolphins. No, really.🐬🤖

And you’ll find out how chatbots are dishing out health advice with the accuracy of a hungover WebMD search. And we’ll help you craft the perfect hypnotherapy session—designed for you.

And of course, remember that Well Wired ⚡ ALWAYS serves you the latest AI-health, productivity and personal growth insights, ideas, news and prompts from around the planet. We’ll do the research so you don’t have to! ❤️‍

Well Wired is constructed by AI, created by humans 🤖👱

Todays Highlights:

🗞️ Main Stories AI in Wellness, Self Growth, Productivity

• 5 Big Truths from Empire of AI That’ll Reboot How You Think About AI

• AI Can Now Help You Talk to Dolphins

• Chatbots Are Now Certified Health Misinformers

• AI Still Rides on Human Elbow Grease 🧑‍💻

• AI Meets the Soul in New Book on Tech + Consciousness

• Of course AI doesn’t know what an orgasm sounds like; does it?

💡Learning & Laughs AI in Wellness, Self Growth, Productivity

• 💡AI Tip of The Day (The Therapist That Won’t Ask About Your Daddy Issues )

• ⚡Supercharge + Optimise 🔋 (AI tools & resources)

• 📺️ Must watch AI videos (Self Growth + Society: The Humans Behind Tokens)

• 🎒AI Micro-class (Design Your Own Hypnotherapy Session with ChatGPT)

• 📸 AI Image Gallery (The Pacific Wears a Crown of Thunder 🌊⚡)

Read time: 5 minutes

💡 AI Idea of The Day 💡

A valuable tip, idea, or hack to help you harness AI
for wellbeing, spirituality, or self-improvement.

Self Growth: Mirror AI, The Therapist That Won’t Ask About Your Daddy Issues 🧠🪞

While some peeps use AI to write emails faster, the high-performers are using it to rewire their inner operating systems.

Quietly.

Intentionally.

Almost suspiciously calm.

They’re not journaling with vague affirmations.
They’re debugging trauma loops like code errors.

And MindMirror.ai is their go-to AI-powered app.

This isn’t your average chatbot masquerading as a therapist.
It’s the equivalent of emotional diagnostics for growth-obsessed humans.

Here’s how it works:

• Pattern Mapping: Spot that you’re reacting to your partner like your Year 9 chemistry teacher reacts to you being a minute late.
  

• Trigger Audits: Decode why your blood boils when someone chews near you.
  

• Future Self Scripts: Start scripting your responses like your wisest self already wrote them.

MindMirror is less “dear diary” and more neural feng shui for your soul.

Use it once and you’ll realise your reactions weren’t just random; they were rehearsed.

Now you get to rewrite your script.

🔗 mindmirror.ai

✅ Best for: High achievers with emotional blind spots and a taste for inner clarity that feels earned, not gifted.

🗞️ On The Wire (Main Story) 🗞️

Discover the most popular AI wellbeing, productivity and self-growth stories, news, trends and ideas impacting humanity in the past 7-days!

AI Book Summary 📚

5 Big Truths from Empire of AI That’ll Reboot How You Think About AI

 🤖 What Is This Book and Why Should You Care?

If you’ve ever delved into the deep well of knowledge that is the AI hype machine and wondered, “Who’s really steering this thing?” Karen Hao’s Empire of AI might just be your new brain cleanser.

When I read it, it felt like a blend of philosophical meditation meets OpenAI power-user map, stitched together with insider gossip, political nuance and sharp analysis.

This isn’t a techno-fantasy or fanboy memoir. It’s a gripping exposé on human power struggles and colonial metaphors driving the most influential AI company on the planet.

You’ll walk away knowing who built the engine, who’s fuelling it… and who might get run over by it. Here are 5 things I learned from reading this book.

1. OpenAI Didn’t Stay Open 🔒🧠

Originally birthed as a non-profit to keep AI safe for humanity, OpenAI quietly morphed into a capped-profit mega-structure. What was once a noble sandbox for AGI ethics now operates more like a corporate war room.

…with investors, NDAs and billion-dollar models.

Why it matters: The mission might still be scribbled on the homepage, but behind the scenes? It’s business with a shadowy halo.

2. The Cult of Scaling Worship 🚀

Inside OpenAI, there’s a near-religious belief: bigger models = smarter models.
This “scaling hypothesis” became gospel. The team threw computing power at language models like they were feeding AI holy water.

Why it matters: Blind faith in bigger tech isn’t just expensive, it risks prioritising speed over safety and hype over nuance.

3. The Rise of Digital Colonialism 🧵

Hao draws sharp parallels between AI’s global influence and old-school empire building. The tools may be digital, but the power dynamics? Eerily familiar.
Think Silicon Valley controlling the future with tools built on data and labour from the Global South.

Why it matters: If we don’t question who benefits, we may miss how digital empires are being built on invisible scaffolding.

4. The People Powering the Machine Aren’t Profiting 🫥

Behind every GPT output sits a chain of underpaid annotators, many based in the Global South, doing the mental equivalent of data janitorial work. Their labour is invisible, their compensation tiny and their wellbeing largely ignored.

Why it matters: The human cost of “seamless AI” isn’t just financial, it’s ethical. Your chatbot’s smoothness has fingerprints all over it.

5. The Myth of Benevolent AGI 👼

Sam Altman’s OpenAI preaches AI safety, but Hao argues that the team’s centralisation of control may create the very risks it claims to mitigate.

If a few insiders control the future of AGI, that’s not a safety measure, it’s a monopoly with a propaganda-focused PR department.

Why it matters: Power focused in the name of protection can still be abused.

So What Now, Homo Hybridus?

Empire of AI wasn’t written to scare you, it was written to wake you.

Whether you’re building, investing in, or simply using AI, this book sharpens your radar. You’ll never hear the words “AI alignment” or “open source” the same way again.

Read this if you want to understand what’s really shaping your digital future and maybe your inner world as well.

📖 Grab the full read here: Empire of AI on Amazon
📚 Wikipedia overview: Empire of AI – Wikipedia

If the future of AI is being shaped by a few powerful hands, behind closed doors, what part of your own agency are you outsourcing without even realising it?

AI Self Growth 🧠

AI Can Help You Talk to Dolphins & They May Talk Back

Imagine chatting with dolphins as easily as sending a text.

Google's latest AI, DolphinGemma, is turning this odd oceanic dream into a tech-focused reality.

Developed in collaboration with the Wild Dolphin Project and Georgia Tech, this AI model analyses decades of dolphin vocalisations: clicks, whistles and buzzes to decipher their meanings and even generate dolphin-like responses.

Using the Cetacean Hearing Augmentation Telemetry (CHAT) system (yes seriously), researchers can now engage in two-way communication with dolphins.

By plugging specific sounds with objects like seagrass or scarves, dolphins are learning to "request" items, showcasing a rudimentary understanding of human interaction.

This is not some weird novelty device; it's a huge step in interspecies communication, blending marine biology with cutting-edge AI to bridge the gap between humans and one of the ocean's most intelligent inhabitants.

Key Takeaways

• AI-Powered Translation: DolphinGemma deciphers and replicates dolphin vocal patterns, enabling basic communication.
  

• Interactive Learning: Dolphins are being taught to associate specific sounds with objects, facilitating two-way interaction.
  

• Open-Source Model: Google plans to release DolphinGemma to the research community, promoting broader applications in marine communication studies.

Why It Matters 🌍

This isn’t just a feel-good story for a David Attenborough nature documentary, it’s a technological breakthrough that may teach us more about the sentience not just found in ourselves, but the world around us.

We’ve spent centuries calling dolphins “intelligent” while tossing them fish and guessing what their whistles mean.

But now?

We’ve gone from marine Peeping Toms to actual conversation partners. Thanks to DolphinGemma, we're no longer just listening in, we're chatting back.

“So... you like kelp?”

But here’s the something that might tickle your brain: if dolphins have been trying to tell us stuff this whole time, what have we missed?

Are they bored?
Curious?

Judging the way we’re polluting their homes?

Either way, the ethical stakes just got a lot higher.

Talking to dolphins with the help of AI, might force us to stop treating them like splashy entertainment and more like comrades in arms in Earth’s giant blue and green share-house.

Learning about our slippery friends, is a step in decoding them, sure, but we’re also decoding us. 🐬🧠💬

What’s Next? 🔮

So what's next?

Open source dolphin whispering, that’s what.

Google’s releasing DolphinGemma into the wild (digitally, not like throwing it in the ocean), so any researcher with a laptop and a love of squeaky sounds can now join the conversation.

Expect an arms race of PhD students trying to say “hi” in whistle-speak.

But this isn’t just for scientists.

Imagine schools running VR sessions where kids can talk to dolphins.

Or AI-powered ocean cams translating “Eeeee-click-click” into: “Oi, stop dumping stuff in my reef.”

We're inching closer to full-on, Dr Doolittle–level interspecies banter. And if this works for dolphins, who's next?

Whales?
Elephants?
Ants?

Your sneaky house cat?

Bottom line: it’s time to stop yelling at nature and start listening. Because the ocean's been talking. And now, for the first time, we're learning to talk back. 🐋

Read the full wire on the USA Herald.

“If we can understand and chat to dolphins, what responsibilities do we have in shaping our interactions with them?” 🤔

Quick Bytes AI News⚡

Quick hits on more of the latest AI news, trends and ideas focused on wellbeing, productivity and self-growth over the past 7 days!

Key AI Wellbeing, Productivity and Self Growth AI news, trends and ideas from around the world:

Wellness: Microsoft’s AI Hits 85.5% Diagnoses Accuracy, Doctors Hit 20%

Microsoft’s new medical AI was tested on random medical files and was able to diagnose complex cases with 85.5% accuracy. Meanwhile, human docs limped across the finish line with a measly 20% accuracy. It was like watching a Nobel laureate play chess against a toddler. 🩺

Why it matters: At diagnosis rates this high, your future GP might be a GPU. Let’s just hope your AI’s bedside manner doesn’t byte (see what I did there).

Wellness: Chatbots Are Now Certified Health Misinformers 🤖

A global study into AI chatbots has discovered that some of the info we now take for granted is false medical advice. Fabricated facts, fake studies and health lies delivered with syntactic charm. It’s called an AI hallucination and we’re all taking it for gospel.

Why it matters: Your chatbot might be giving you fake health advice and a link to a weird quack that doesn’t even exist. Always double check the facts before you chug that garlic tea for gout, because the wrong info could have serious health consequences.

Productivity: AI Note-Takers Are Stealing Your Meetings (and Your Soul)

Forget water cooler chats, meetings now look like a Star Wars council of glowing-eyed minute-takers. Todays AI-powered bots are hidden in phones, necklaces, glasses and pendants. AI notetakers transcribe and record everything and they never blink or forget.

Why it matters: Your every “uhm” is now immortalised, or can be erased completely to make you sound flawless. Wave goodbye to privacy and plausible deniability.

Productivity: AI Still Rides on Human Elbow Grease 🧑‍💻

Behind every slick AI app is a gig worker tagging images, labelling data, or deleting Nazi frogs off comment threads. It’s the digital equivalent of scrubbing the palace floors while the king brags about his marble bath. We still need humans to power our AI tech.

Why it matters: There’s no “machine learning” without human teaching. Humans will always be part of the equation. Relax, your job is safe.

Self Growth: AI Meets the Soul in New Book on Tech + Consciousness 📖

A new book dives into how AI may shape your soul, tweak your beliefs and reboot your metaphysical firmware, arguing that as AI advances, it will challenge your religious beliefs while also giving you a chance to deepen your spiritual understanding.

Why it matters: Because AI isn’t just crunching numbers, it’s creeping into the cathedral of your consciousness. As machines mimic minds, you're forced to ask: what makes you truly human?

 Self Growth: This Philosophy Bestseller Was Written by a Bot 🧠 

A buzzy new book on digital manipulation just blew my mind. The book, a philosophical experiment, critiques how digital platforms and figures like Trump and Musk manipulate reality by multiplying narratives, making it difficult to discern truth.

Why it matters: The challenges AI poses to notions of authorship and truth are many. As AI-generated content becomes commonplace, distinguishing between human and machine-created works becomes even harder. If AI can pass as your favourite philosopher… who’s really the author of your thoughts?

Other Notable AI News⚡

Other notable AI news from around the web over the past 7 days!

• New AI food research tool can help you get approved faster

• How Claude AI clawed through millions of private books

• Of course AI doesn’t know what an orgasm sounds like; does it?

• AI is advancing faster than we thought says sci-fi visionary

• Mattel and OpenAI collaborate to create an AI Barbie doll

• Fake AI band ‘The Velvet Sundown’ hits 500K monthly Spotify listeners

⚡ AI Tool Of The Day

Welcome to your AI bento box 🍱 today’s serving is full of obscure, slightly unhinged, but deeply delicious tools to reboot your health, focus and sense of self. Use them before they go mainstream (or get acquired by a vitamin brand).

Wellness: Nightlight 💤

• Use: Helps you dream on purpose, literally. Craft lucid dream scripts using your voice and sleep cycle data.

• AI Edge: Generates adaptive dream sequences based on your REM patterns and psychological inputs.

• Best For: Sleep hackers, lucid dreamers and anyone trying to meet their inner child at a forest rave.

• 🔗 nightlightlabs.io

Productivity: Folder Graveyard 🪦

• Use: Automatically buries dead files, abandoned projects, and haunting PDFs from 2017.

• AI Edge: Detects digital decay based on engagement, access frequency and "vibe" (seriously).

• Best For: People whose desktop looks like a crime scene.

• 🔗 foldergraveyard.ai

Spirituality: EchoMuse 🪞

• Use: An AI mirror that records your daily voice notes, reflects your mental patterns, and shows how your “story of self” is evolving.

• AI Edge: Uses LLMs to find recurring beliefs, emotional triggers, and identity scripts across your journaling.

• Best For: Identity designers, therapy nerds, and self-aware overthinkers.

• 🔗 echomuse.app

AI wellbeing tools and resources (coming soon)

📺️ Must-Watch AI Video 📺️

🎥 Lights, Camera, AI! Join This Week’s Reel Feels 🎬

Self Growth: Self Growth + Society:
The Humans Behind the Tokens 🧠💬 

What it’s about: Imagine building something smarter than you. Then imagine asking it for parenting advice, quantum physics help and emotional support.

That’s where we are. AI is no longer just powering search results, it’s quietly shaping how you think, work, write and maybe… cry?

Anthropic’s new mini-doc explores the real societal impact of Claude: not in code, but in conversation. This is where AI becomes therapist, co-pilot, priest and mirror all at once.

It’s fast. It’s powerful. And it’s absorbing our collective humanity like a cultural sponge.

Who decides what it reflects back?
And more importantly, who gets to own that mirror?

⚙️ AI Edge: Autonomous agents. Emotionally fluent interfaces. Value-loaded advice engines that ping your identity like a tuning fork.

🧬 Best For: Anyone wondering if the voice in their head now sounds suspiciously like Claude. Or if empathy delivered via token count still counts.

"We built AI to reflect us, but now it’s shaping us back, pixel by pixel, prompt by prompt. The question isn’t what it knows. It’s who we become when we believe it.”

— Cedric Chenefront, Well Wired

🎒  AI Micro Class  🎒

A quick, bite-sized AI tip, trick or hack focused on wellbeing, productivity and self-growth that you can use right now!

Self Growth: Design Your Own Hypnotherapy Session with ChatGPT

“For anyone craving clarity, calm, or just a mental couch to lie down on.”

Hey, you slightly frazzled, gloriously overthinking human.

Ever wished you could press pause on your inner insanity, sidestep your imposter syndrome, or finally rewire that sneaky belief that you’re a walking to-do list?

Welcome to the AI age of self-hypnosis for the slightly cynical but secretly spiritual.

You don’t need a crystal, a degree in neurolinguistics or a pocket watch swinging over your face. You just need ChatGPT, a few clever prompts and five minutes.

This Micro Class shows you how to design your own hypnotherapy script; customised, soothing, and very effective. Whether you want to stop stress-snacking at 3am or unhook your brain from your anxiety, you’ll leave today with a mental upgrade.

Let’s transform that inner dialogue, shall we?

Why Hypnotherapy with ChatGPT Actually Works 🌀

Hypnosis isn’t woo woo. It’s neuroscience. Hypnotherapy helps you speak directly to the subconscious, your internal DJ spinning all the beats of your beliefs, habits and those many reactions you run on autopilot.

AI is wonderful at helping you write hypnotic suggestions in words your brain actually listens to. ChatGPT is focused, neutral and always ready to rewrite the glitchy scripts running behind your thoughts into a language you understand!

And studies show that self-hypnosis can reduce anxiety, reframe limiting beliefs and even shift pain perception. Add ChatGPT to the mix? You’ve got a personalised trance coach that won’t judge you weird thoughts and ideas.

What are the benefits?

✅ Nervous System Reset: Feel your body exhale as your mind unclenches

✅ Subconscious Clarity: Swap self-doubt loops for upgraded beliefs that actually serve you

✅ Inner Calm On-Demand: Prompt your way into peace faster than a Zen monk on valium

Instead of spiralling through your mental clutter, treat your mind like premium software: clean, intentional and upgraded on cue.

Design sessions that meet your moment: energise your mornings with motivation scripts, decompress after meetings with body-based grounding, or fall asleep to subconscious self-worth rewiring.

Let’s explore how!

Design-Your-Own Hypnotherapy Script  🧠

Purpose: Guide ChatGPT to craft a hypnotic, therapeutic experience tailored to your emotional state, goal and personal style.

[Start prompt]

Act as a certified clinical hypnotherapist with training in cognitive behavioural therapy, somatic psychology and neuro-linguistic programming. Design a custom hypnotherapy session for me based on the following inputs:

My emotional state right now is: [e.g. anxious, unfocused, tense]

The main belief I want to change is: [e.g. I’m not good enough, I have to prove myself, I can't slow down]

The outcome I desire is: [e.g. calm confidence, ease with uncertainty, deeper self-trust]

I prefer imagery that feels: [e.g. nature-based, cosmic, body-oriented, futuristic]

Please include breath cues and body awareness throughout and keep the tone gentle, grounding and empowering.

[End prompt]

✅ Example Input:

1. Emotional state: overwhelmed

2. Belief to change: "If I slow down, I’ll fall behind."

3. Desired outcome: calm productivity

4. Imagery: forest and streams

What you’ll get: A 10-minute hypnotherapy script that feels like a deep-tissue massage for your nervous system. Guided breath, grounding cues, subconscious rewiring included.

🛠️ AI Tool Spotlight: TranceCraft 🌙

If ChatGPT is your hypno-writer, TranceCraft is your sound designer. This browser-based tool lets you input any hypnosis script and overlays it with theta wave soundtracks, forest ambiance, or oceanic bliss.

Why it’s magic:

• Converts written scripts into spoken audio (choose from whispery monk or soothing therapist voices).
  

• Syncs breath cues to sound for deeper immersion.
  

• Lets you save your scripts like an audio journal for your subconscious.

Think Spotify for soul surgery.
It’s weirdly wonderful.

🔗 trancecraft.ai

What You Learned Today: 🎓

✅ How to use AI to design your own hypnotherapy experience

✅ Why self-hypnosis is neuroscience, not stage-show magic

✅ The ChatGPT prompt that talks straight to your subconscious

✅ A tool that turns your written session into a full-blown audio ritual

FINAL THOUGHT 💭 

Let’s be real, your brain is already hypnotising you every day. Might as well teach it better lines. With a few clever inputs and a dose of AI, you can turn your self-talk from “catastrophe radio” to a voice that will cheer you on.

Hypnotherapy with ChatGPT isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about remembering who you were before the world told you otherwise. And now, you’ve got the prompt to prove it.

So next time your inner critic narrates your day like it’s a Greek tragedy, pause.

Prompt.
Re-script.

Because your subconscious isn’t broken, it’s just running outdated code.

Time to update.

📸 AI IMAGE GALLERY 📸

AI Art: The Pacific Wears a Crown of Thunder 🌊⚡

The ocean sways in a sapphire trance, its breath perfumed by lightning’s dance. Palms bend like monks in a temple of wind, as clouds spill secrets the moon once pinned. Rain writes poems on the back of the sea, tropical storms in celestial decree.

Want to create these images yourself?

Go to Midjourney and plug this prompt into the editor. Once the image is generated you can use the new video feature to animate it.

A dramatic and powerful tropical typhoon raging, with dark, swirling storm clouds, heavy torrential rain, and strong winds bending tropical trees. Flashes of lightning illuminate the chaotic scene. The Pacific ocean is turbulent with massive, crashing waves under a menacing sky. Dynamic lighting, high detail, cinematic, photorealistic. --ar 16:9 --v 7

• Poem and digital artworks created by Cedric The Ai Monk.

👊🏽 STAY WELL 👊🏽

Next scroll, we’re diving into how AI isn’t just scripting affirmations, it’s programming belief loops in real time.

For now, whisper your new mantra:
“I am open to change. I am the script. I am the suggestion.” 🌀

Cedric the AI Monk - Your guide in the silicon wilderness.

Ps. Well Wired is Created by Humans, Constructed With AI 👱🤖 

🤣 AI MEME OF THE DAY 🤣