The Positive Ways That Neurotechnology Can Be Used

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Gaining insight into our own brain activity could be the key to unlocking much better mental health and well-being. If companies don't use brain data to commodify it, to inform a more Orwellian workplace, get back to work. Katie McAfee, Ryan Marlow and Sandy Green asked about things like medical devices, like brain implants, being used for surveilling or for commerce.

Machine poets. ChatGPT fails. Neurological surveillance. Brain implants that treat depression. Is it scary? Cool? Let’s firehose some questions at Duke Law professor, neuro and bioethicist, author and TED speaker Dr. Nita Farahany. She explains the history of AI, the dawn of chatbots, what’s changed recently, the potential for good, the possible perils, how different lawmakers are stepping in, and whether or not this is scary dinner party conversation. Do you have feelings about AI and brain implants? Hopefully, and we talk about why.

Buy Dr. Nita Farahany’s books: The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology (2023) and The Impact of Behavioral Sciences on Criminal Law (2009)

Dr. Farahany’s 2023 TED Talk: Your right to mental privacy in the age of brain-sensing tech

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