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FBL102: Nita Farahany – Thinking Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology

The Feedback Loop by Singularity

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The Dangers of Thought Decoding

In China, workers are required to wear EEG devices like a hard hat or a baseball cap throughout their workday in order to track their brain activity for attention or fatigue. They also are being probed for political messaging and their reaction to it. Right now go to the level of actually interrogating thoughts themselves or decoding thoughts themselves, even scarier world. We should already be worried about cognitive liberty in a world in which all of that is already possible based on existing and very limited technological capabilities today.

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