As AI-generated content continues to improve significantly, and with the advent of advanced world-models, the ability to create custom, personalized, immersive content will have an unexpected healing effect on humanity.
An example of a company creating these AI generated Large World Models is Fei Fei Li’s World Labs
If you think about it, the forces within the human psyche are either attractive or repulsive. Attractive forces – such as needs, desires, or wants – pull others or external elements toward the self. On the other hand, repulsive forces – such as fear, resistance, or anger – push others or external elements away, creating division.
Healing occurs when a middle ground is reached – when a need is fulfilled or a fear is released.
Since both of these processes can arise from physical experiences or mental ones (such as visualization or dreams), there is potential for healing to occur through immersive visualization. In a way, this concept aligns with exposure therapy. However, with the growing ability to create AI-generated, highly personalized, immersive, and interactive worlds, the potential for exposure therapy becomes far greater.
We could fulfill our wildest desires and confront and release our deepest fears, all from the safety and privacy of our homes through these customised immersive worlds. Once this technology becomes widely adopted, it could have a profound and transformative impact on global mental health. The prospect of this is truly heartening to consider.