AI for Happiness

Name: AI for Happiness
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Science and AI Based Tools for Wellbeing, Flow, and Meaning.

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Created byProf. Dr. Ana-Maria Olteteanu

Last updated 1/2026

English

What you'll learn

Understand the science of happiness — from gratitude and authenticity to flow, play, and purpose.
Explore how AI can enhance wellbeing through reflection, focus, creativity, and emotional awareness.
Practice science-based activities that strengthen all the known elements of happiness that are under your control
Discover how emotions, habits, and attention shape long-term happiness and how technology can support—not replace—them.
Build your own AI companions (no coding required!) to help track mood, nurture relationships, or spark creative flow.
Integrate everything into a personal Happiness Map, connecting your inner energy with outer purpose.

Course content

5 sections • 35 lectures • 4h 14m total length

Welcome to The Science & AI of Happiness4:46
Explore how ancient wisdom and modern science shape happiness, and how ai can mirror and enhance self-awareness to foster connection, purpose, and well-being.
What Is Happiness, Really?8:16
The Brain’s Blueprint for Joy7:37
Explore how the brain’s limbic system drives happiness, with amygdala, hippocampus, nucleus accumbens, and prefrontal cortex, plus dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphins; build a joy blueprint with gratitude and mindfulness.
Can AI Understand Happiness?7:41
How Artificial Intelligence Fits In the Science of Happiness6:44
Discover how AI serves as a companion to reflect, track, and grow your happiness through science-backed drivers like connection, gratitude, flow, and purpose.

The Real Relationship Between Money and Happiness11:32
Money shapes emotional wellbeing by reducing stress, increasing security and autonomy, and enabling meaningful experiences. Happiness follows three trajectories—continuous growth, plateau, or declining returns—depending on personal context.
The Psychology of Financial Well-being11:37
Explore how money well-being blends psychology and practical finance, showing how control, security, and self-efficacy shape happier, calmer spending aligned with intrinsic goals, experiences, and generosity.
Life Design with Money: How to Spend for Meaning9:55
Design a meaningful financial life by spending consciously in line with your top values, shaping freedom, joy, and lasting meaning through money and time decisions.
AI for Conscious Spending (Aligned Wallet)9:11
AI for Experiential Living (Experience Curator)6:48
AI for Emotional Spending & Money Identity7:53
Discover how AI analyzes spending to reveal emotional spending and your money identity, helping you pause, reflect, and redirect toward healthier budgeting. Visualize an emotional money map to guide choices.
Practice Tools: Align Your Spending with Your Values0:24

The Science of Belonging: Why We’re Wired for Connection8:38
Explore how belonging fuels happiness and health through social connections. Understand solitude versus loneliness, the brain's social baseline, and digital versus in-person connection.
AI and Connection – Machines that Listen8:18
Core Circle Tracker – Strengthening Real Connections with AI9:25
Explore how AI strengthens real connections and happiness through a core circle tracker that prompts daily care, maps relationships, and turns reflection into action.
Extending Connection Beyond Your Circle – The Stranger Outreach AI Companion8:52
Explore how brief, friendly interactions with strangers boost happiness and belonging, and use the stranger seeds AI companion to plant micro-moments of connection through gentle reminders and seed ideas.
AI Empathy Coach & Relationship Skills Trainer9:26
Practice Tools: Strengthen Your Relationships with AI0:28

The Science of Gratitude: Why Thankfulness Changes the Brain7:53
Practicing Gratitude with AI8:37
Kindness and Happiness7:17
Experience the science of kindness and happiness, exploring the helper's high, reward circuits, serotonin and oxytocin, and how small acts foster collective well-being and resilience.
Artificial Intelligence for Kindness7:33
Artificial intelligence supports kindness and empathy with morning prompts and a personalized kindness planner. It uses reflection and a ripple journal to boost happiness through consistent, meaningful acts.
Altruism and The Science of Collective Happiness5:14
AI for Collective Happiness9:00
Module Wrap-Up: The Science of Giving & Collective Joy
Practice Tools: Your Gratitude & Kindness Companions0:32

The Science of Flow9:18
Deep Work in a Distracted World10:10
AI for Flow: Your Focus Coach10:30
The Science of Play and Creativity7:32
Explore how play boosts creativity, resilience, and emotional flexibility by engaging dopamine-driven curiosity and neuroplasticity. Learn how brief playful rituals in teams enhance psychological safety, collaboration, and innovation.
AI for Play and Creative Exploration12:31
Team Flow and Shared Creativity8:53
From Flow to Purpose6:44
Module Wrap-Up: Energy as a Cycle5:11
AI maps energy as a cycle to balance activation and restoration in happiness. Track rest, mood, and focus; visualize energy flow and design weekly rhythms that nourish you.
Practice Tools: Enter Flow States with AI0:20

Requirements

No prior AI or psychology knowledge needed

Description

What if you could design your happiness?

Built on the latest research from psychology, neuroscience, and affective computing, AI for Happiness blends scientific insight with hands-on creativity. You won’t just learn about happiness — you’ll build your own intelligent wellbeing tools, guided step-by-step.

Across eight immersive modules, you’ll discover:

The Science of Joy and Emotion – what truly drives happiness and how AI recognizes human feeling.
AI for Gratitude and Kindness – create an AI Gratitude Prompter that helps you notice life’s bright moments and a Kindness Companion that tracks small acts of care.
AI for Collective Happiness – design your Impact Compass, an intelligent system that curates causes aligned with your values and reminds you to act on them.
Flow and Deep Work with AI – build a Focus Coach that helps you design distraction-free flow states and a Play Generator that rekindles curiosity and creativity.
AI for Authenticity and Purpose – experiment with a Purpose Mirror that detects your recurring values and helps you live more in tune with your true self.
AI for Conscious Living – discover how AI can help align your finances, energy, and time with what matters most to you.

This course invites you to explore the most important factors known to affect happiness and wellbeing. Then integrate these factors into your life.

If you want to use technology in some of your journey, we invite you to explore how artificial intelligence could become a mirror, coach, and companion toward your personal wellbeing. Each AI lab is designed as a guided experiment—you’ll reflect, prototype, and personalize your tools. No coding background is needed: we’ll use accessible platforms like ChatGPT, Make, or Replit to bring your wellbeing assistants to life.

By the end of this course, you will:

Understand the psychology and neuroscience of happiness;
Experience how AI can enhance reflection, connection, and focus;
Build your own AI wellbeing ecosystem, from daily gratitude to creative flow;
Learn how to make technology more human-centered—and life more meaningful.

Whether you’re seeking greater focus, joy, or purpose, AI for Happiness gives you the science, structure, and smart tools to make it real.

Who this course is for:

Professionals looking to improve their happiness and contentment levlels
People looking to build more meaning, creativity, and calm in their daily routines.
Anyone curious about how science and technology can support happiness in real life.
Coaches, educators, and wellbeing practitioners who want to bring evidence-based insights into their practice.
Learners interested in exploring AI tools as companions for self-awareness and wellbeing.
Anyone who has ever wondered: Can technology help us become more human?

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Course content

Getting to Know Happiness5 lectures • 35min

Money, Meaning, and Conscious Living with AI7 lectures • 57min

Relationships, Happiness and Artificial Intelligence6 lectures • 45min

Gratitude, Kindness, and Collective Happiness8 lectures • 46min

Flow, Play, and Deep Work with Artificial Intelligence9 lectures • 1hr 11min

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