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# Arthur Brooks

## Arthur Brooks

**Type:** Person (Happiness Researcher, Harvard Professor, Author) 
**URL:** https://www.arthurbrooks.com/

Happiness expert and professor at [[entity-harvard-university|Harvard Business School]]. Author of *Build the Life You Want*. Brooks provides the summit's ethical and psychological counterweight, warning against the dangers of [[concept-artificial-intimacy|Artificial Intimacy]] and articulating the [[framework-ai-happiness-rules|Rules for AI and Happiness]].

### Key Contributions to This Summit
- [[concept-hemispheric-lateralization|Hemispheric Lateralization of AI]] — AI as left-brain only
- [[concept-complicated-vs-complex|Complicated vs. Complex Problems]] — the critical distinction
- [[concept-robotic-cat|The Robotic Cat Analogy]] — technology cannot satisfy complex human needs
- [[claim-ai-substitutes-relationships]] and [[claim-ai-complements-relationships]] — the substitute/complement duality
- [[framework-ai-happiness-rules]] — the three rules for AI and human flourishing

Brooks draws heavily from Iain McGilchrist's *The Matter with Things* (2021) for his hemispheric framework.

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*See also: [[quote-complex-vs-complicated]], [[quote-simulation-of-life]]*