{"id":161705,"date":"2023-04-07T18:22:32","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T23:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/mind-reading-ai-japan-study-sparks-ethical-debate"},"modified":"2023-04-07T18:22:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T23:22:32","slug":"mind-reading-ai-japan-study-sparks-ethical-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/mind-reading-ai-japan-study-sparks-ethical-debate","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mind-reading\u2019 AI: Japan study sparks ethical debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mind-reading-ai-japan-study-sparks-ethical-debate.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tokyo, Japan \u2013 <\/strong>Yu Takagi could not believe his eyes. Sitting alone at his desk on a Saturday afternoon in September, he watched in awe as artificial intelligence decoded a subject\u2019s brain activity to create images of what he was seeing on a screen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still remember when I saw the first [AI-generated] images,\u201d Takagi, a 34-year-old neuroscientist and assistant professor at Osaka University, told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went into the bathroom and looked at myself in the mirror and saw my face, and thought, \u2018Okay, that\u2019s normal. Maybe I\u2019m not going crazy\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo, Japan \u2013 Yu Takagi could not believe his eyes. Sitting alone at his desk on a Saturday afternoon in September, he watched in awe as artificial intelligence decoded a subject\u2019s brain activity to create images of what he was seeing on a screen. \u201cI still remember when I saw the first [AI-generated] images,\u201d Takagi, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}