Protecting Our Freedom of Thought with Nita Farahany

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🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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We’re on the cusp of an explosion of cheap, consumer-ready neurotechnology - and it’s all going to be supercharged by AI. Legal scholar Nita Farahany talks us through the current state of neurotech, and explains why we need a new legal framework around “cognitive liberty” to protect the last frontier of privacy: our thoughts.

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0:00.0	What we're looking at is major tech companies who have had an approach to the brain which
0:05.1	is used as much information about how the brain operates to exploit it rather than to
0:09.5	enable and empower people.
0:11.3	I think it paints a really troubling future if we don't reset the terms of service.
0:18.1	And so cognitive liberty really is meant to connect up all of those pieces.
0:24.2	That's Nita Farahani, the author of The Battle for Your Brain, defending the right to
0:28.5	think freely in the age of neuro technology.
0:31.9	Today, we're going to focus on a technological arms race which we haven't discussed yet
0:36.9	on your undivided attention.
0:39.1	That is, new forms of hardware embedded into mainstream devices like earbuds, which can
0:44.9	gather data on our most intimate signals, even in our skulls, our unfakable brain activity,
0:51.8	and in ways that benefit others at our expense.
0:56.2	Remember the film Minority Report?
0:58.2	Well, it's not kid ourselves.
0:59.2	We are arresting individuals who have broken the law.
1:01.2	But they will.
1:02.2	The commission of the crime itself is absolutely metaphysics, the preconceit of the future
1:05.2	and they're never wrong.
1:07.0	Luckily, we're not yet in the version of the future where authorities read our minds
1:11.3	and predict our thoughts.
1:13.7	But now, predictive algorithms can predict our behavior and thoughts to some degree, but
1:18.2	Nita says we're already seeing neuro tech that is far more invasive than we realize.
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