Marlynn Wei, MD, JD is an interdisciplinary artist, board-certified psychiatrist, and author working at the intersection of psychiatry, law, and philosophy. Dr. Wei examines existential questions and our relationship with memory, mortality, and memorialization through the lens of technology and has an forthcoming book with The MIT Press.Her immersive performance Elixir: Digital Immortality, based on a fictional AI startup offering digital immortality through AI agents, has been selected by interactive arts festivals in 2019 and later developed in artist residences at Pipeline Theatre (New York, NY) and MAX. Elixir was presented at the University of Cambridge's Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence in 2021.
Dr. Wei maintains a psychodynamic psychotherapy practice in New York City.Selected Presentations2025 June 16, AI as a Therapist: Helpful Tool or Dangerous Illusion? with Adele Wang, All Things Human podcast.
2024 July 11, Life and Death: Artificial Intelligence, panel with Made by Many, London, UK. 2022 May 15. Can Empathy Exist in the Metaverse? Video podcast with host Casey Clegg (Pubnub COO), with panelists Wanda Gregory, Philip Rosedale. San Francisco, CA.2021 November 19. University of Cambridge, Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence. Design for Digital (Im)mortality panel at Digital (Im)mortality: Philosophy, Ethics and Design. Cambridge, UK. 2021 Summer. Pipeline Theatre Preview of Beta UX: interactive interview, ELIXIR: Digital Immortality. New York, NY.2021 January and March. Pipeline Theatre, Internal Workshops of ELIXIR AI. New York, NY.2020 March, ELIXIR AI. Media Art Exploration presentation. New York, NYSelected Performances2021 May-June ELIXIR AI: Digital Immortality. Preview of Beta User Experience with Pipeline Theatre, New York, NY. Playwright.2020 June ELIXIR: Virtual 1:1 v2.0 with Media Art Exploration, New York, NY. Playwright/Creator.2019 ELIXIR: Digital Immortality & Last Words Ceremony, performance art, Burn This, The Factory LIC, Long Island City, Queens, New York. Performer/creator.2019 ELIXIR: Digital Immortality & Last Words Ceremony, performance art, Dusklit Festival, interactive art festival, Sugar Loaf, Chester, New York. Performer/creator.2017 NOWHERE/ NOW WHERE/ NOW HERE, print & performance art, BAU Contenitore di Cultura Contemporanea, Florence/Viareggio, Italy.