Solving Your Bored-out with Psychedelics | Jason Silva Keynote

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Solving Your Bored-out with Psychedelics: Exploring the Future of Storytelling, AI, and Mental Health In this mind-bending talk at TNW Conference 2025, futurist and storyteller Jason Silva shares how artificial intelligence is opening up new ways to express the human experience. After years of exploring how exponential technologies expand our imagination, Jason now believes the future has finally arrived. To show what’s possible, he presents three short films created entirely with AI tools like Midjourney and Runway. These films blend surrealism, humor, and psychedelia to reimagine mental health, creativity, and the search for meaning: ✨ The Psychedelic Puppet Show: A satirical take on mental health treatments, where absurd interventions free the mind from the narrow routines of modern life. ✨ Operation Burning Man: A wild journey to the desert that becomes a ritual of creative deprogramming and ecstatic self-discovery. ✨ Desolation Row: An imagined exploration of Bob Dylan’s subconscious, where the boundaries between dream and reality dissolve into poetic inspiration. Along the way, Jason explores how AI can become a new kind of creative instrument—like a modern paintbrush or piano—helping us give shape to the hidden logic of our inner worlds. He also reflects on how storytelling and technology can be powerful tools to combat burnout, boredom, and disconnection. Watch to see how the combination of psychedelics, art, and AI might unlock new paths to healing, self-expression, and collective re-enchantment.