There could soon be a future where criminals serve their time inside an AI prison and have ‘artificial memories’ implanted into their brains.

The future is looking hella crazy. A dystopian virtual imprisonment system called Cognify places offenders in high-tech pods where they’re fitted with headsets and fed a stream of AI content. The idea is that prisoners would ‘live’ through artificial memories designed to reform their behaviour.

Violent offenders, for example, could be forced to experience their crime from the victim’s perspective.