Ali Mattu, Ph.D.

One of my videos was in this study of digital single session interventions for depression 🙌🏽

Check out the summary below and the preprint here:

osf.io/preprints/ps...

9 years, 5 Star Wars movies, 14 Star Wars series, and 6 Star Trek series later…

We’re back at #SDCC!

I LOVED his book!

Human Mind vs. AI Mind We feel. It predicts. What happens when they meet?

Human minds feel. AI minds predict.

We build meaning through emotion, surprise.

AI processes everything else, seeing patterns we'd never see.

The magic happens when these minds meet, humanity amplified by AI.

This is how I’m trying to do that 👇🏽

yournextmind.substack.com/p/human-mind...

Wow… 😮

Congratulations!!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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Dark chocolate + coffee FTW

They’ve really become critical community spaces. And indie bookstore curation is giving me life in 2025!!! 📚

W T F 😡

Wish I could have been there! 🖖🏽

What a fantastic pairing!!!

This is fantastic to hear!!! Thank you for being willing to serve.

Absolutely! Solitude is one thing but isolation is another.

Why AI scares me and how I'm fighting back We weren’t ready for social media. Let’s not make the same mistake with AI.

I’ve come to believe that
AI is the mental health challenge of our time.

We didn’t see change coming with social media.

But all the signs of change are here, now.

And this time we can do something about it:

www.braverwithanxiety.com/why-ai-scare...

Thanks for having me!!

We need to teach kids:
1. AI sounds human because it’s trained on us.
2. But it’s not alive.
3. And it’s only as good as the data we gave it.

This is how we start raising a generation that can use AI without being fooled by it.

Say “Knock knock...”
And AI might say: “Let me go open the door.”
Silly, but wrong.

Because AI doesn’t know. It predicts.

And when you ask a question, AI guesses the next word, then the next, and the next. It guess what pixel to draw, then the next, and the next.

It sounds smart. It feels real.
But it’s not alive. And it makes mistakes.

AI has:
1. Read every book.
2. Understood every online conversation.
3. Seen every picture.

So it’s very, very good at guessing what comes next.

“Knock knock,” I say.
They reply: “Who’s there?”
I pause: “Wait…how did you know to say that?”

That, I tell them, is how AI works.

It doesn’t think. It doesn’t feel. It predicts.

Let’s not make the same mistake with AI...

Let’s not hand them the next generation of tools without first teaching them how these tools work.

Not without joining them. Not without offering skills, supervision, and critical thinking.

It starts now. By teaching kids what AI actually is.

We’ve already seen what happens when we hand kids powerful tech without guidance.

Instagram can make girls who already doubt themselves hate themselves even more.

YouTube can take boys who feel invisible and lead them down a path of rage and radicalization.

Does any of this resonate with you?


You can just reply: yes or no.


I’d love to hear.

It’s not about productivity. 
It’s about ownership.

My day is mine.


My mind is mine.

That’s how we meet the future:
 One human act at a time.

Here’s what I do every morning, before tech gets its turn:

I write down 3–5 things that actually matter to me.

Not someone else’s emergencies.
Not my endless to-do list.

Just a short list that reflects my life.

As Kevin Roose writes in Futureproof:

“AI is better than humans at operating in stable environments...Humans are better at handling surprises, filling in gaps, or operating in environments with poorly defined rules.”

The future will reward the skills machines can’t replicate:

🧠 Focus

💪🏽 Resilience

🌊 Flexibility

🔭 Foresight

❤️ Connection

Smartphones didn’t invent isolation.
They just supercharged it.

Now AI is accelerating everything.

We have to rebuild what we lost.
 Relearn connection, creation, and community as urgent, deliberate acts.

Everyone’s trying to fix what social media did to our minds.

We didn’t see that disruption coming.

But this time, we can see it coming.


AI is changing everything.

This isn’t just a tech revolution.
It’s a mental health one.


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