This week, the largest ‘happiness conference’ ever is taking place in Tyrol. Co-organizer Stefan Höfer of the Medical University of Innsbruck will talk in advance about lucky charms that every person needs and new aids that can be dangerous.
Happiness! We search for it all our lives. This unique feeling can be individual to a certain extent. But there are lucky charms that are good for everyone.
1200 participants from 55 countries
“We always need other people to become who we are. Even a hermit once needed other people to become a hermit,” says Stefan Höfer, co-organizer of the European Conference for ‘Positive Psychology’ – also known as the Happiness Conference – which is being held from Wednesday to Saturday in Innsbruck. There are 1,200 participants from 55 countries. It is the eleventh and largest conference of its kind to date.
Höfer is a health psychologist at the University Clinic in Innsbruck and sees togetherness as a prerequisite for happiness: “The trend to put the self first – the pursuit of happiness through self-optimization – may be legitimate. But the most important thing for our existence and therefore our happiness is the other and that is also the challenge.”
Unanswered questions about the use of AI
This challenge will be discussed at the happiness conference, as will the idea of using artificial intelligence (AI) in psychotherapy. A number of AI tools are intended to recreate or even replace an interpersonal relationship. This entails dangers. “Many questions have not yet been sufficiently clarified, such as responsibility if a chatbot does not respond adequately to people in crisis situations,” says Höfer. Conference participants want to show how AI can still be used sensibly.
How important hope is for a positive life, that is also what Innsbruck will be about. Höfer: “We cannot change the past, but we can try to shape the future.”
Source: Krone
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