Your right to mental privacy in the age of brain-sensing tech | Nita Farahany

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🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Neurotechnology, or devices that let you track your own brain activity, could help you deeply understand your health. But without privacy protections, your innermost thoughts, emotions and desires could be at risk of exploitation, says neurotech and AI ethicist Nita Farahany. She details some of the field's promising potential uses -- like tracking and treating diseases from depression to epilepsy -- and shares concerns about who collects our brain data and how they plan to use it, ultimately calling for the legal recognition of "cognitive liberty" as we connect our brains and minds to technology.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
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0:14.1	When computers are inside our brains, where do we end and where do the devices begin?
0:20.4	Ethical questions about brain computer interfaces are neuro technology ethicist Nita Farahani's
0:26.3	specialty.
0:27.3	In her Ted 2023 talk, she braids personal experience with her technological and legal
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1:12.3	Today we know and track virtually nothing that's happening in our own brains.
1:19.4	But in a future that is coming much faster than you realize, all of that is about to
1:25.0	change.
1:26.0	We're now familiar with sensors in our smart watches to our rings that track everything
1:31.4	from our heartbeat to our footsteps, breaths, body temperature, even our sleep.
1:38.0	Now, consumer neuro tech devices are being sold worldwide to enable us to track our own
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