Protecting Our Freedom of Thought with Nita Farahany

We are on the cusp of an explosion of cheap,  consumer-ready
neurotechnology - from earbuds that gather our behavioral
data,  to sensors that can read our dreams. And it’s all
going to be supercharged by AI. This technology is moving from
niche to mainstream - and it has the same potential to become
exponential. 


Legal scholar Nita Farahany talks us through the current state of
neurotechnology and its deep links to AI. She says that we
urgently need to protect the last frontier of privacy: our
internal thoughts. And she argues that without a new legal
framework around “cognitive liberty,” we won’t be able to
insulate our brains from corporate and government intrusion.


RECOMMENDED MEDIA 


The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely
in the Age of Neurotechnology by Nita Farahany


The Battle for Your Brain offers a path forward to
navigate the complex dilemmas that will fundamentally impact our
freedom to understand, shape, and define ourselves


Computer Program Reveals What Neurons in the Visual Cortex Prefer
to Look At


A study of macaque monkeys at Harvard generated valuable clues
based on an artificial intelligence system that can reliably
determine what neurons in the brain’s visual cortex prefer to see


Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall
McLuhan


An influential work by a fixture in media discourse


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