The Importance of Pause and Dive

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The more advanced imaging technologies like fMRI with AI are then able to be backported to the less advanced technologies that may well sit inside of an Apple EarPod. That's something which I think is deeply surprising because when I imagine putting on a helmet, I'm like, I'm never really going to do that. Maybe we can talk about authoritarian regimes, both corporate and political. Maybe that's where we go next.

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.

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