Progress and Future Challenges in AI, Wearables, and Smartphones for Understanding and Healing Depression

In this talk, Dr. Picard will share new results from MIT studies that link continuous physiological signals, speech, sleep - activity rhythms, and in-the-moment mood/stress reports with behaviors and AI-generated forecasts of health change. She will discuss what these patterns reveal about autonomic and neurological activity, the promise of personalized, data-driven depression care, and the scientific and ethical hurdles to building trustworthy systems at scale.

Speaker: Rosalind Picard, Massachusettes Institute of Technology

Room S360