{"id":24432,"date":"2023-08-11T17:04:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T00:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=24432"},"modified":"2023-08-11T17:04:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T00:04:12","slug":"ai-supercharged-neurotech-threatens-mental-privacy-unesco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/ai-supercharged-neurotech-threatens-mental-privacy-unesco\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-supercharged Neurotech Threatens Mental Privacy: UNESCO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The combination of “warp speed” advances in neurotechnology, such as brain implants or scans that can increasingly peek inside minds, and artificial intelligence poses a threat to mental privacy, UNESCO warned on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The UN’s agency for science and culture has started developing a global “ethical framework” to address human rights concerns posed by neurotechnology, it said at a conference in Paris.<\/p>\n

Neurotechnology\u00a0is a growing field seeking to connect electronic devices to the nervous system, mostly so far to treat neurological disorders and restore movement, communication, vision or hearing.<\/p>\n

Recently neurotechnology has been supercharged by artificial intelligence algorithms which can process and learn from data in ways never before possible, said Mariagrazia Squicciarini, a UNESCO economist specialising in AI.<\/p>\n

“It’s like putting neurotech on steroids,” she told AFP.<\/p>\n

Gabriela Ramos, UNESCO’s assistant director-general for social and human sciences, said that this convergence of neurotechnology and AI was “far-reaching and potentially harmful”.<\/p>\n

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“We are on a path to a world in which algorithms will enable us to decode people’s mental processes and directly manipulate the brain mechanisms underlying their intentions, emotions and decisions,” she told the conference.<\/p>\n

In May, scientists in the United States revealed they had used brain scans and AI to turn “the gist” of what people were thinking into written words — as long as they had spent long hours inside a large fMRI machine.<\/p>\n

Later that month, billionaire Elon Musk’s firm Neuralink received approval to test its coin-sized brain implants on humans in the United States.<\/p>\n

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