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Designing Tomorrow is a joint newsletter by the Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision Making at USC Marshall and the Psychology of Technology Institute (PTI). The Neely Center’s mission is to provide tools and insights that help leaders make responsible decisions surrounding the development, use, and governance of emerging technologies. PTI is a non-profit network of behavioral scientists, technology designers, and decision-makers that protects and improves psychological health for society by advancing our understanding and effective use of transformative technologies.
We focus on psychology because it is the core driver of individual and collective behavior; we focus on technology because it has powerful shaping effects on psychological health, at the individual and societal level. To solve grand challenges such as climate change and pandemics we must first understand and improve the technology-psychology relationship using ethical leadership and decision making.
By fostering and promoting cutting-edge research, comprehensive education, and cross-disciplinary dialogue, we strive to ensure that technological advancements contribute to both immediate and enduring societal benefits. To achieve our mission, we build new partnerships and conversations across the tech ecosystem in order to ask better questions, find answers more quickly, and spread insights more efficiently among scientists, tech designers, policymakers, and end users. We refer to this work as the advancement of Technological Intelligence (TQ) – “the ability to build, manage, and use technology successfully to achieve outcomes that are beneficial for our collective psychological health. ”
Our current priorities center around three areas fundamental to the alignment of transformative technologies with psychology-enhancing values: repairing social media, promoting AI value alignment, and defining healthy mixed reality.
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