{"id":185517,"date":"2024-03-20T08:03:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T13:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/scientists-concerned-about-devices-that-literally-read-your-mind"},"modified":"2024-03-20T08:03:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T13:03:05","slug":"scientists-concerned-about-devices-that-literally-read-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/scientists-concerned-about-devices-that-literally-read-your-mind","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Concerned About Devices That Literally Read Your Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-concerned-about-devices-that-literally-read-your-mind2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the world inches ever closer to mind-reading technology, some scientists are calling to legally enshrine the right to keep our thoughts to ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/undark.org\/2024\/01\/03\/brain-computer-neurorights\/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=emai\" class=\"\">interviews with <em>Undark<\/em><\/a>, neuroscientists \u2014 including those who are working to make these so-called brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) happen \u2014 revealed their concerns about the devices.<\/p>\n<p>In one particularly telling exchange, a pair of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin who\u2019ve successfully created a BCI that can rudimentarily translate brain waves into text described how it felt to realize their device was actually reading their thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world inches ever closer to mind-reading technology, some scientists are calling to legally enshrine the right to keep our thoughts to ourselves. In interviews with Undark, neuroscientists \u2014 including those who are working to make these so-called brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) happen \u2014 revealed their concerns about the devices. In one particularly telling exchange, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185517","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}