Nita Farahany (on neurotechnology and the law)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Nita Farahany (The Battle For Your Brain) is an author, professor, and scholar. Nita joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the effects of implementing brain wave monitoring, what body politics are, and how AI is currently being used to predict human behavior. Nita and Dax talk about the fears they have surrounding neurotechnology, whether transferring a person's consciousness will be possible some day, and how fast surveillance is normalized. Nita explains why the definition of death is being debated, how privacy practices often don't align with privacy preferences, and what cognitive rights laws could look like in the future. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome to armchair expert, experts on expert. I'm Dax, Randall Shepard, I'm joined by Monica Lily Padman.
0:06.1	Hi there. Hello there. I wish we knew Nita's middle name.
0:09.7	I'm gonna guess. Okay. Well first I'll just say our guest is Nita Farahani. She is a leading scholar on the ethical legal and social implications of emerging technology.
0:20.0	She is the professor of law and philosophy at Duke University.
0:23.8	So what do we think for Nita?
0:26.3	Melanie.
0:27.3	Nita Melanie Farahani.
0:28.6	I like it.
0:29.6	It has a good ring.
0:30.6	It really sounds right.
0:31.6	Good job. I'm glad you picked it. This is a really mind-bending. It really
0:35.0	really sounds right.
0:38.0	It's about the future of the technology that's really already here to some degree
0:41.0	and going to be exponentially getting better and better.
0:44.8	And in a nutshell, machines are very close to being able to read your mind.
0:49.8	Yeah, and she does an interesting job of laying out the pessimistic side and the optimistic side.
0:55.2	She's pretty optimistic, as you'll hear, a little bit more than me and you were.
0:59.0	Yeah, she's kind of like neutral. She's warning us and she's excited yeah as am I she has a book
1:05.4	about this topic out right now called the battle for your brain defending the
1:11.1	right to think freely in the age of neuro technology.
1:15.0	This conversation spans all kinds of wonderful things because she's also a law professor so we get into all kinds of good legal stuff.
1:20.0	There's some philosophy stuff that's interesting.
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