{"slug": "struggling-with-a-hard-life-choice-ai-future-selves-have-tips", "title": "Struggling with a hard life choice? AI future selves have tips", "summary": "A new AI tool called Future You lets users chat with a simulated version of their future self, generated by a large language model, to offer advice on life decisions. Researchers at MIT and other institutions developed the system, which creates a realistic older avatar based on a user's current age, goals, and personality, aiming to reduce anxiety and improve long-term thinking.", "body_md": "In each installment of the Back to the Future movie franchise, a time machine drives the same general script: The main character must rewrite a moment in time to fix his family and friends’ lives.\n\nLog in\n\nSubscribers, enter your e-mail address for full access to the Science News archives and digital editions.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/struggling-with-a-hard-life-choice-ai-future-selves-have-tips", "canonical_source": "https://www.sciencenews.org/article/life-choice-ai-future-selves-decisions", "published_at": "2026-07-24 15:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-24 15:31:45.632754+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-products"], "entities": ["MIT", "Future You"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/struggling-with-a-hard-life-choice-ai-future-selves-have-tips", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/struggling-with-a-hard-life-choice-ai-future-selves-have-tips.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/struggling-with-a-hard-life-choice-ai-future-selves-have-tips.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/struggling-with-a-hard-life-choice-ai-future-selves-have-tips.jsonld"}}