Siliconsciousness: The Battle for Your Brain: A (Scary) Conversation with Nita Farahany

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Elon’s Neuralink isn’t the only game in town when it comes to neurotechnology. With a rapidly expanding AI industry, more and more companies are finding ways to analyze data straight from your brain. So what can we do in an age where our thoughts have become commodities and privacy is an increasing rare luxury? Nita Farahany, a leading expert on the ethical and legal implications of emerging technologies, joins David Rothkopf to explore these fascinating questions and more. This material is distributed by TRG Advisory Services, LLC on behalf of the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in the U.S.. Additional information is available at the Department of Justice, Washington, DC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.2	Thank you. artificial intelligence revolution, politics, and policy. Hello and welcome to SILA consciousness. I'm your host, David Rothkopf, and this week is every
1:06.7	week we're going to talk about some important issues associated with AI and new technologies.
1:13.1	This week, I am delighted to say that we have joining us, Nita Farahani.
1:17.9	She is a leading scholar on the ethical, legal, and social implications of emerging technologies.
1:24.3	She's the Robinson O. Everett, Distinguished Professor of Law and Philosophy at Duke Law School,
1:30.3	the founding director of Duke Science and Society, the faculty chair of the Duke MA and Bioethics
1:37.3	and Science Policy, and the principal investigator of the Slap Lab and more. But I think I'll wrap it up there and welcome, Nita.
1:48.2	Welcome. Thank you for joining me. Thanks for having me.
1:52.7	There's lots to talk about here because you're dealing in a fascinating area that is
1:59.0	nascent and takes us in directions that I think many people are, I don't know,
2:06.7	they're not thinking enough about. And I would like to get, because most of what we talk about
2:12.9	here is related to AI to AI in a bit. But I read an interesting interview with you called what brain
2:21.1	privacy will look like in the age of neurotech ties to a book called The Battle for Your Brain,
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