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In Brief: Balancing AI, Ethics, and Freedom (with Nita Farahany)

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The P300 and the Menendez Brothers

A technique that's a number of law enforcement, you know, or using across the world and it actually has an interesting, it all comes back to Trump. There was a researcher by the name of Larry Farwell who was curious about this signal in the brain which signals certainty or uncertainty. And he wondered whether he could develop that technology for application for people who had committed a crime or who were involved in a crime. The FBI decided it wasn't reliable enough to use in law enforcement in the U.S., even though it did end up getting used by a few criminal defendants who introduced it here. But there have been challenges in replicating the development of those probes.

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