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

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

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🗓️ 12 September 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
0:16.4	Hey listeners, it's Dr. Shoshana Ungerleiter.
0:19.3	NeuroTech is slowly becoming a bigger part of our everyday reality,
0:23.6	like sleep tracking on your smartwatch.
0:26.7	As affordable gadgets start connecting our brains to computers,
0:30.9	how might our lives change?
0:33.0	And what ethical questions could this technology unlock?
0:37.1	In her Ted 2023 talk,
0:39.7	NeuroTech and AI ethicist, Nita Farhani,
0:42.8	takes us on a journey through the future of the field.
0:46.4	Nita explores the staggering possibilities of NeuroTech
0:49.7	and the daunting challenges we face as this tech evolves.
0:53.4	She encourages us to consider what it could mean
0:55.9	if our thoughts and our feelings become as transparent
0:59.1	as our online activities.
1:01.2	And she urges us to protect our right to think freely.
1:12.1	Today, we know and track virtually nothing
1:16.8	that's happening in our own brains.
1:19.3	But in a future that is coming much faster than you realize,
1:23.4	all of that is about to change.
1:26.3	We're now familiar with sensors in our smartwatches
1:29.2	to our rings that track everything from our heartbeat
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