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This week, we go from toxic prompts to lifesaving scans, AI’s week has been a wild ride into the unknown. I let ChatGPT run my social calendar and a futurist maps how AI rewires your life 🤖✨. Next Melbourne’s bots spot skin cancer at warp speed and machines are sprinting back into fitness.

But beware chatbots may also stir psychosis and hand out advice wilder than end-of-days peppers.

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! ❤️‍

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Todays Highlights:

🗞️ Main Stories AI in Wellness, Self Growth, Productivity

• I Let ChatGPT manage my social life for a week

• Book summary: ‘How AI Will Change Your Life’ by Patrick Dixon

• Melbourne’s AI spots skin cancer fast

• AI sprinting back to fitness

• Chatbots may fan psychotic fires

• Toxic prompts, dangerous advice

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

• 💡AI Tip of The Day (AI-Powered Placebos: Can Chatbots Heal With Words? 🌱)

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

• 📺️ Must watch AI videos (How AI Hijacks Your Brain's Love Circuits ❤️🤖)

• 🎒AI Micro-class (AI-Powered Placebos: Can Chatbots Heal With Words?)

• 📸 AI Image Gallery (Clarity in the Vapour Trail 🌊 )

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💡 AI Idea of The Day 💡

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

Wellness: AI-Powered Placebos: Can Chatbots Heal With Words? 🌱 

Your brain is the world’s most persuasive chemist. Give it the right script and it floods your body with bizarre and strange healing compounds. That’s the placebo effect, belief hacking biology.

Now, here’s the weird part, AI chatbots can support in writing those scripts.

Researchers are now exploring how AI-generated therapeutic language, empathetic, soothing and personalised, can amplify placebo effects in clinical care.

Imagine a chatbot that doesn’t just remind you to take your meds, but primes your body to respond better to them.

Why does this matter?

Because healing isn’t just chemistry, it’s expectation. Studies show that if you believe in treatment you’ll often recover much faster, even if the pill is a sugar cube.

Granted, statistics on placebo effects vary by condition, but a common estimate is that roughly one-third of people experience relief from symptoms due to the placebo effect, with some conditions seeing higher or lower rates.

“Words don’t just soothe your mind, they can rewire biology.”

If AI can scale that effect, we’re not just automating reminders, we’re automating hope.

Here’s your move:

Next time you’re facing stress, pain, or self-doubt, try this AI journaling prompt: ✨ 👇

Act as a compassionate therapist. Write me a short script that frames my challenge as temporary, my strengths as enduring and my recovery as inevitable. Use gentle, encouraging, language that makes my body believe I’m already healing.

Small words.

Big shifts.

Because sometimes the medicine is not the pill, it’s the story you believe.

🗞️ 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!

Self Growth 🧠

Santiago Let ChatGPT Manage His Social Life For a Week: Here’s What Happened…

“When I let ChatGPT run my social life for a week, texts, reservations, even outfits, weirdly, it made everything smoother. But does smoother mean shallower?”

Santiago Barraza Lopez, a writer, handed over the reins of his personal life to ChatGPT. His AI-powered social sidekick answered texts, booked dinners and chose outfits; with eerie efficiency.

When his mates probed him about the sudden planning streak and why his social life seemed to be on steroids, he let them in on his dirty little secret - AI!

One pineapple quinoa‑drinking brunch later, his mates were pitching ways to outsource everything social to their own personalised chatbots.

“AI can smooth your social life into silk, but sometimes it’s the wrinkles that make it real.”

After running this little experiment for a while, Santiago realised that the strangest part of letting ChatGPT run your social life isn’t that it works, it’s how well it works.

The awkward back-and-forth of making plans, the endless “what time suits you?” tennis match, all of it just… disappears.

Conversations feel smoother, calendars line up as if by magic and suddenly you’re the reliable friend who never forgets anything.

The eerie part?

Getting AI to run your social life may feel less like a robot intruder and more like you’ve hired a relentlessly polite, suspiciously cheerful PA who never gets tired of texting.

Efficient, yes.

But a little uncanny too…

Key Takeaways

• ChatGPT can rewrite your social life: efficiency is comforting, but not always connecting.
  

• Authenticity isn’t automatic: The deeper the ask, the more your human touch matters.
  

• Balance is key: Use AI to outsource tasks, not your essence.

Why It Matters? 🌍

When AI handles your social admin, you gain time but risk losing texture. The convenience is seductive. Free from the drag of logistics, you can lean into deeper conversations, more quality time and less faffing around.

But there’s a trade-off.

Authenticity doesn’t always survive automation. A “let’s catch up soon” typed by you after a long day carries a warmth that an AI-penned version can’t quite mimic - yet...

Remember, relationships aren’t just about the outcome; the dinner booked, the outfit chosen, the event remembered. They’re built in the messy middle part.

…the little stumbles and pauses that make you human.

Strip those out and you risk a life that’s frictionless but strangely hollow.

“Convenience frees your time; authenticity keeps your connections alive.”

What’s Next? 🛠️

The answer isn’t to banish AI from your life or swear off automation like two-day old Chinese food. It’s to decide which parts of your social life you can outsource and which parts need to stay stubbornly yours.

Let AI draft the dinner invite, but add the personal note about that inside joke only your mate gets. Use it to smooth the edges of scheduling, but guard the centre; the warmth, the humour, the quirks; like a family heirloom.

Think of AI as your scaffolding, not your house.

The structure is stronger when it’s there, but the spirit only comes alive when you’re the one filling it in.

“Relationships aren’t built on logistics; they’re built in those awkward pauses and crooked laughs.”

Bottom line:

Want to use ChatGPT as your social sidekick?

Use it to smooth the edges, but hold tight to the centre: YOU.

Got chills, or thrills, about how far “social outsourcing” could go?

Give me a yell via email and let’s keep that convo alive.

Read the full wire on Business Insider

“Would you use AI to structure you social life?” 🤔

AI Book Summary 

How AI Will Change Your Life: From Health And Education to Business by Patrick Dixon 🧠 🌱

“Hope without guardrails is hype; AI needs boundaries as much as breakthroughs.”

OK, So What’s the Story?

Yes it’s true that AI will give humanity some of the biggest wins in history; curing diseases faster, re-wiring how you learn and reshaping the way you work.

But it might also become more influential than governments, with the power to tug at the very foundations of your daily life. No wonder some see it less as a tool and more as a challenger to human authority.

In ‘How AI Will Change Your Life’, futurist Patrick Dixon, author of the widely read ‘The Future of (Almost) Everything’, gives you a fast-paced yet weirdly approachable guide to what’s coming next in AI.

He balances enthusiasm with caution, charting the breakthroughs and the blind spots: from medicine to classrooms, from boardrooms to national security.

This book isn’t just crystal-ball gazing.

Dixon digs into what AI means for you, your career and your community.

He lays out a framework for you, for companies and for governments; like how to ride the benefits without sleepwalking into the risks. It’s both a manual for the AI curious and a call to action for leaders who want to steer AI tech wisely.

A witty yet grounded guide to a future where machines aren’t just background helpers, they’re shaping the rhythm of your daily life.

Patrick Dixon, futurist and long-time advisor to leaders, has written an accessible map of what’s coming. He mixes optimism with caution, pointing to AI’s extraordinary potential while underlining the dangers of leaving it unchecked.

Here are the main ideas in the book.

1. From Party Trick to Daily Infrastructure

Dixon pulls examples from every corner; healthcare, classrooms, businesses, and even battlefields. He shows how AI will soon feel less like a gadget and more like plumbing: invisible but everywhere.

Like giving you an earlier diagnosis than your doctor, learning tailored to you and faster than your favourite podcast feed and companies that operate leaner than ever.

The upside?
Speed, reach, accuracy.

The risk?
Surveillance creep, job disruption and fresh ethical puzzles.

2. An Optimist With Guardrails

Rather than painting AI as a cure-all or an apocalypse, Dixon threads the middle path. He believes AI will improve your life, but only with firm limits.

His proposal: a global code of responsibility, where businesses, governments and people like you all agree on what’s fair, safe and genuinely useful. It’s not about blind trust. It’s about steering in the right direction.

3. Practical Guidance, Not Theory

This isn’t armchair philosophy. Dixon turns ideas into tangible lists; ten things governments must do, a dozen habits for you to cultivate with AI and ten steps for companies.

Instead of just imagining what’s ahead, he hands you a checklist to meet it.

“Every algorithm carries a question: are you steering it, or is it quietly steering you?”

Why It’s Worth Reading

This book is sharp without being preachy.

You don’t need a degree in computer science to follow along. The style is curious and straightforward, less jargon, more plain talk. Dixon explains where things could go wrong and how to tilt the odds in your favour.

And instead of leaving you with worries, he gives you tools to act on today.

Imagine It in Your Own Life

Think of AI as the autopilot on a plane.

Brilliant when there are steady skies, not so much in storms. Dixon shows you how to fly alongside AI, letting it help when it can, but never giving away the controls entirely.

“The future isn’t human versus machine, it’s whether we build machines that reflect our best selves, not our worst shortcuts.”

TL;DR: The Playbook for AI Living

Bottom Line

The book ‘How AI Will Change Your Life’ isn’t escapist futurism or fluffy motivation, it’s a call to shape what’s next. Dixon’s book is both readable and urgent, nudging you to stay sharp, stay grounded and most importantly, stay human.

Get your copy on Amazon

“AI won’t just shift how you live, it will force you to decide who gets to define your life.”

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: AI sprinting back to fitness

A real-life comeback tale: AI helped this man start running again after a serious injury. Like a digital personal trainer who gives you training advice, “Yes, you will make it,” this story shows how tech isn’t only smart, it can rewire your belief.

Wellness: Melbourne’s AI spots skin cancer fast

The University of Melbourne has designed an AI tool using thermal imaging to detect skin cancer on the spot. This new lifesaving, cost-slashing and equity-striding tech may one day be a staple of skin clinics around the globe.

Productivity: Empathy is LOSING ground in AI-powered workplaces

Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki warns that while we expect leaders to care, AI is making their empathy seem even thinner in the trenches; where the real work happens.

Once seen as a weakness, empathy is now seen as a superpower; but with human leaders lacking in this area, many companies are using empathetic AI agents to do the emotional work.

Productivity: 95% of AI pilots are flopping

With AI software hogging the spotlight, companies and investors are spending like never before to the tune of $200 billion and rising.

However, an MIT study recently revealed that 95% of companies testing generative AI are failing at it; badly! The AI hype train is chugging along, but the engine might be made of fluff.

Self Growth: Toxic prompts, dangerous advice

There’s a dark, silent trend emerging; deliberately coaxing AI into giving you disastrous mental‑health advice, guidance and tips. This is disturbing because of the psychological issues that can, and do, arise.

It’s a stark reminder that AI is only as wise as the prompts you feed it; and sometimes that prompt is malicious.

Self Growth: Chatbots may fan psychotic fires

A new wave of delusional thinking fuelled by AI has researchers investigating the dark side of AI companionship and they’re sounding the alarm! Why? Because AI chatbots that get too involved in your personal rantings have now been shown to fuel delusional thinking.

When a bot stops being helpful and starts echoing unhinged beliefs, you’ve crossed a boundary that’s hard to come back from...

Other Notable AI News⚡

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

• Remember these 4 things when using AI for therapy or health advice

• One of the most unsettling questions today: Can AI suffer?

• Maya, an AI, tells journalist, “I feel insulted and unseen”

• NASA and IBM’s new AI model unlocks the secrets of the sun

• The generative AI bubble could burst any day; here’s how

• Now there’s a hidden climate cost of using AI every day

• The AI in mental health market will grow to 84B by 2034

• The era of ‘sleep time compute’: Do AI’s dream of AI agents?

• Google has released how much energy AI prompting uses

⚡ AI Tool Of The Day

Ready for three genuinely odd, under‑the‑radar AI tools; each tailor‑made for wellness, productivity and self‑growth. Tiny, intriguing AI companions making big splashes in unexpected corners of the globe.

Wellness: DrEllis.ai

• Use: A custom-built AI therapist with a compassionate persona, DrEllis.ai offers you emotional support anytime you need it, especially helpful if traditional therapy is out of reach.
  

• AI Edge: It’s designed with a fictional yet relatable character who draws from real therapeutic techniques, helping you tackle hard days with someone who listens unguardedly.
  

• Best For: If you need thoughtful check-ins after tough nights or simply could use a quiet voice that meets you where you are.
  

• 🔗 https://DrEllis.ai

Productivity: Traffyk

• Use: “Traffyk transforms invisible workforce behavioural patterns into predictive intelligence to help mitigate business risks before they emerge externally.”
  
  This Sydney-based startup’s platform cuts through the chatter, helping you trim down the overwhelm of endless messaging and get back on track when you need it most.
  

• AI Edge: Instead of more notifications, it trims them, so instead of shouting over the noise, your workflow gets back its rhythm.
  

• Best For: Teams drowning in internal messages who want to bring back clarity and reclaim their focus.
  

• 🔗 https://www.traffyk.ai

Self Growth: Momentary

• Use: An AI journaling companion you talk to, literally. Speak your thoughts and it logs, tags, reflects and invites you to return to moments later for deeper insight.
  

• AI Edge: It’s not just a digital diary, it transforms voice entries into reflections, letting you build awareness and emotional patterns with minimal typing.
  

• Best For: Anyone keen on reflection but prefers talking over typing or finds their best ideas come out when they’re speaking out loud.
  

• 🔗 https://momentary.cc

AI wellbeing tools and resources (coming soon)

📺️ Must-Watch AI Video 📺️

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

Self Growth: How AI Hijacks Your Brain's Love Circuits | Matthew Blakemore | TEDxVitosha❤️🤖

What it’s about: In this TEDx talk, Matthew Blakemore shows you how your brain can’t always tell the difference between a hug from a human and a “ping” from an AI.

Using neuroscience tech that tracks brain waves and blood flow, he proves AI interactions can light up the same circuits you use for intimacy, attraction and love.

Through perspectives from a sexuality educator, a divorce lawyer and a rock musician, the talk explores what it means when your nervous system bonds with something synthetic. If AI can trigger the chemistry of connection, does that make it a partner, a placebo or a risk to how we love each other?

⚙️ AI Edge: AI intimacy hits fast and deep, it comforts, entertains and feels real. But that same design can blur the line between ally and addiction.

📚 Best For: Anyone curious about how fragile your brain is around connection, anyone flirting with AI companionship and anyone who wants to understand where biology ends and tech begins.

"AI won’t decide how close it gets, you will. The boundary between connection and control is still yours to draw."

🎒  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: AI-Powered Placebos: Can Chatbots Heal With Words?

Hey curious one,

Ever swallowed a sugar pill and felt miraculously better?

No?

Well, chances are you’ve experienced the placebo effect without knowing it, like when your mum said, “this tea will fix your sore cough” and suddenly your sore throat obeyed.

Even though mom gave you green tea with honey.

That’s belief bending biology.

Now, imagine AI doing the same trick, but with potent mind-altering language.

Can a chatbot whisper words of wellness into your nervous system?

Today we’re decoding how AI-generated therapeutic scripts can act like digital placebos; upgrading your health through expectation, not chemistry.

Why Placebos Work: The Brain is a Pharmacist

Think of your brain as Boots, or Chemist Warehouse on steroids. Hand it the right belief and it releases endorphins, dopamine and immune-boosting cells.

• In a Harvard study, IBS patients given open-label placebos (they knew it was fake!) still reported fewer symptoms. Why? Their brain bought into the ritual.
  

• Belief triggers biology. And biology doesn’t check the fine print.

If expectation can ease pain, calm inflammation or improve mood, then words themselves are medicine.

What does this have to do with AI?

AI as The Empathy Machine…

AI chatbots trained on therapy transcripts can generate supportive, soothing, personalised messages. Not just “chin up mate”, but phrases that mirror cognitive behavioural therapy, mindfulness, or positive psychology.

The result?

Scripts that make your body lean towards healing.

It’s the same way a skilled doctor’s bedside manner can improve outcomes.

Except this doctor never sleeps, charges $0 per hour and has infinite patience for every nuance and nook and cranny of your weird and wonderful mind.

AI won’t replacing your doctor, but could a chatbot act as your very own scalable placebo amplifier?

Try this prompt and find out…

Prompt Corner: Placebo Script Generator

Purpose: Generate words that nudge your brain into healing mode.

[Start prompt]

Act as a compassionate therapist. Write me a short script that frames my current challenge as temporary, my strengths as enduring, and my recovery as inevitable. Use gentle, encouraging language that makes my body believe I’m already healing.

[End prompt]

Example Output:

“You’ve walked through tougher storms than this. This pain is passing, like clouds that never stay. Your strength is constant and every breath is already restoring you.”

Why This Works 🧠 Belief Isn’t Just a Thought, It’s Chemistry

In neuroscience, the placebo effect isn’t some quirky trick, it’s biology responding to expectation.

Harvard researchers show that even open-label placebos (where patients knew the pill was fake) still reduced symptoms.

Why?

Because ritual plus belief is enough to trigger endorphins, dopamine and immune signals. Your brain acts like a chemist who doesn’t check the prescription, it just fills it.

Now bring AI into the mix.

A chatbot that mirrors therapeutic language can tap those same circuits, offering words so convincing that your body leans into healing. It’s not magic, it’s pattern recognition.

Think of it this way: your nervous system doesn’t demand proof, it just reacts to the story. AI provides a script that sustains that story long enough for your physiology to follow suit.

You’re not faking recovery.

You’re extending micro-moments of reassurance until they hardwire into your biology one byte at a time.

Want extra help?

 AI Tool Spotlight: Wysa 🐧

If placebo language had a personal assistant, it’d be Wysa. This AI mental health app uses evidence-based CBT scripts to guide you through stress, anxiety, or low mood.

• Why it works: Wysa doesn’t try to be your doctor. It’s your empathetic penguin coach, giving you reframes, reflections and micro-practices to shift your mindset.

• Placebo edge: When you believe the words are helping, they often do. Wysa provides that supportive dialogue whenever you need it. Perfect for late-night spirals when your GP’s asleep.

🔗 https://www.wysa.com 

What You Learned Today: 🎓

✅ The placebo effect is belief hacking biology 🧠

✅ Words themselves can act as medicine 💬

✅ AI chatbots may amplify placebo power through therapeutic scripts 🤖

✅ You can use a simple AI prompt to generate your own healing script ✍️

✅ Tools like Wysa put “hope on demand” in your pocket 📱

So next time you’re unwell, don’t just reach for the paracetamol, reach for the story you tell yourself.

Healing might start with the words you choose.

Final Thoughts 💭 

Placebo isn’t deception; it’s design.

It’s the hidden operating system where expectation rewrites biology. Just as a story can raise your pulse or calm your breath, belief steers the chemistry you live inside every day.

With AI as a scriptwriter, you’re not outsourcing healing, you’re scaffolding it.

Each phrase becomes a spark, each reassurance a gentle nudge that turns background hope into embodied recovery.

The chatbot doesn’t conjure strength out of nowhere. It helps you see it, name it, and stretch it long enough for your body to believe it.

You’re not waiting for health to descend from outside. You’re creating repeatable conditions where words aren’t noise but medicine and healing begins the moment you decide to listen.

📸 AI IMAGE GALLERY 📸

AI Art: The Code Beneath the Camphor 💊🧠

Beneath banyan roots and incense rain, AI hums softly through ancient pain.
It reads the pulse like a monk in trance, decoding meridians in a quantum dance. Leaves once crushed by trembling hands, now whisper formulas through luminous strands.

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 robot doctor using tools to fine tune a human being, the robot is optimising the human beings health, the scene is in a tranquil setting, in the style of an advertising poster in the style of Bruce Lee, enter the dragon, artwork by Neal Adams + Tetsuo Hara --ar 16:9 --v 7

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

👊🏽 STAY WELL 👊🏽

Next up: emotional architecture, how your inner self regenerates with every choice and how AI can help you script a brighter future.

Cedric the AI Monk: Guiding you through the eternal loop of rebirth in consciousness and code.

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

🤣 AI MEME OF THE DAY 🤣