{"id":163310,"date":"2023-05-03T21:24:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T02:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/mind-reading-machines-are-here-is-it-time-to-worry"},"modified":"2023-05-03T21:24:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T02:24:28","slug":"mind-reading-machines-are-here-is-it-time-to-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/mind-reading-machines-are-here-is-it-time-to-worry","title":{"rendered":"Mind-reading machines are here: is it time to worry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mind-reading-machines-are-here-is-it-time-to-worry.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neurotech will bring many amazing positive changes to the world, such as treating ailments like blindness, depression, and epilepsy, giving us superhuman sensory capabilities that allow us to understand the world in new ways, accelerating our ability to cognitively process information, and more. But in an increasingly connected society, neuroprivacy will represent a crucial concern of the future. We must carefully devise legal protections against misuse of \u201cmind reading\u201d technology as well as heavily invest in \u201cneurocybersecurity\u201d R&amp;D to prevent violation of people\u2019s inner thoughts and feelings by authorities and malignant hackers. We can capitalize on the advantages, but we must do establish safety mechanisms as these technologies mature. #neurotechnology #neuroscience #neurotech #computationalbiology #future #brain<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Determining how the brain creates meaning from language is enormously difficult, says Francisco Pereira, a neuroscientist at the US National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland. \u201cIt\u2019s impressive to see someone pull it off.\u201d\u2018<\/p>\n<p><b>\u2018Wake-up call\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Neuroethicists are split on whether the latest advance represents a threat to mental privacy. \u201cI\u2019m not calling for panic, but the development of sophisticated, non-invasive technologies like this one seems to be closer on the horizon than we expected,\u201d says bioethicist Gabriel L\u00e1zaro-Mu\u00f1oz at Harvard Medical School in Boston. \u201cI think it\u2019s a big wake-up call for policymakers and the public.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neurotech will bring many amazing positive changes to the world, such as treating ailments like blindness, depression, and epilepsy, giving us superhuman sensory capabilities that allow us to understand the world in new ways, accelerating our ability to cognitively process information, and more. But in an increasingly connected society, neuroprivacy will represent a crucial concern [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,30,1496,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-ethics","category-law","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163310","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\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}