Shekhar Natarajan

a digital creator, and very often a keynote speaker as well.

My background is mostly as a television presenter.

I would say that my most high profile program was Brain Games, which was a TV show I hosted for National Geographic Channel.

Did that for five seasons, and that looked at, it was like ABCs of neuroscience.

It was a show that kids and parents could watch together.

And then I also hosted another show called Origins, which was about transformative technologies that changed humanity.

I would describe myself definitely as a protopian or a techno-optimist, which means I like to dream about the ways that we can use our technologies to extend our capacities.

I'm passionate about human flourishing, which also includes mental health, and so I feel like Paleolithic brains, medieval laws, and godlike technologies is a bit of a problem, so I'm always thinking about ways in which we can sort of up-level technology

our psyches and souls and psychology so that we can better deploy these increasingly God-like tools.

But ultimately, I'm a dreamer and a romantic.

Fantastic.

Fantastic.

Natalie, you're the rising star in the world of AI and social psychology.

And I'm really, really excited to have you.

So love for you to actually educate our guests on your background.

What do you do?

And why are you here in the first place?

vitality, not just our lives, but also the wider living world.

So to your humanist, I'd say I'm possibly more on the animist side.

Excited to have you.