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Educate me
May 30, 2023 at 11:56 am
Why should I listen to a lawyer about dangers of technology?
Michael Withington-Walsh
May 30, 2023 at 12:30 pm
because it’s about the laws surrounding it, dunce.
cypher
May 30, 2023 at 12:13 pm
neuralink?
Cody Rall MD with Techforpsych
May 30, 2023 at 12:33 pm
Great presentation Nita!
Chirag Garg
May 30, 2023 at 1:32 pm
Demanding mental privacy will itself get labelled as a mental disorder by the people who misuse such information.
Lissanne
May 30, 2023 at 6:16 pm
You’re right on this one. Great care must be in place before the data misuse, and “labeling” of people can happen.
St8Genesis
May 30, 2023 at 8:49 pm
Wtf no, no one is calling that a mental disorder, stop spreading bs
Fine Artist Kelli Jean Stretesky
June 1, 2023 at 3:25 am
Absolutely true, while pros like her deny the tech exists as if that’s ethical, and legal to help with terrorism.
bergstrom oliver
May 30, 2023 at 1:51 pm
Mental Privacy.
Steve Jaross
May 30, 2023 at 2:00 pm
I never had my right for mental privacy. People always invade in secrecy. All I had is denial and sweet old lies. I came to accept that freedom is a man made delusion. We will be always serving the laws of physics and nature.
NIL
May 30, 2023 at 2:32 pm
get over it, psychics do this all the time, and you know what_ YOU ARE BORING AS HECK
Haz Matman
May 30, 2023 at 3:07 pm
How long before the rich get metal plates implanted in their skulls to shield from brain scans?
LethiuxX
May 30, 2023 at 4:02 pm
I find it astonishing that we as people still need to agree to all of these legal policies when consuming products.
The companies should be agreeing to policies and we should just be able to consume the products without worrying about all of the terrible crap they could do with our private information.
Maya Shankar
May 30, 2023 at 5:15 pm
Great job Nita!! I loved watching this live :):)
Youbewb
May 30, 2023 at 5:17 pm
“….if people can confidently share their brain data privately…” ….Sigh… so unfortunately naive….
Dojchin Stanojkov
May 30, 2023 at 5:47 pm
Condolences for your daughter. We also lost a child, and it is not easy …. Life goes on, and God help us all in such moments
Lissanne
May 30, 2023 at 6:08 pm
We need to work harder on privacy rights. Before the bad compromised data is stolen and misused.
Ango Nuts
May 31, 2023 at 1:24 am
One thing I don’t get is: can you make a simple example of an instance where MY ( my individual brain data) can be misused against me?
One single example. Because I can’t think of any.
Md Atif
May 31, 2023 at 4:35 pm
@Ango Nuts Your brain data, when combined with other personal information available online, could be used to create detailed psychological profiles without your knowledge or consent. These profiles could be used for various purposes, such as targeted manipulation, harassment, or even identity theft.
Lissanne
May 31, 2023 at 4:41 pm
“If” AI could eventually track the electrical patterns of the brain, a person’s specific pattern could show mild schizophrenia or mental issues that a person doesn’t want anyone to know about. This information could keep a person from a job., or force then into treatment that is expensive and not needed. The examples at this point are endless.
Leanne
May 30, 2023 at 6:09 pm
If it can be misused and abused, it will be – a tale as old as time.
Janelle S
May 30, 2023 at 8:25 pm
Does this mean tinfoil hats might become actually useful?
Demon Z
May 30, 2023 at 9:51 pm
no.
St8Genesis
May 30, 2023 at 8:48 pm
Thankfully, our bodies have a good at of adapting to its surroundings. I believe the brain is still vastly more powerful and will devise a way to keep thought private even from those mind reading machines
Rick Dworsky
May 30, 2023 at 10:28 pm
Surveillance plus AI will end Freedom of Thought. Don’t buy into the cheap art, or the hype.
uju is my universe
May 31, 2023 at 1:20 am
Cognitive liberty
Md Atif
May 31, 2023 at 1:46 am
I feel like leaving this all tech stuff and going back to ancestry tools. Maybe agricultural now. This world has gone too far to digest now.
Agada Victor
May 31, 2023 at 2:59 am
Absolutely thought provoking!
Levente More
May 31, 2023 at 6:34 am
how about leaving alone this obsession to try to control other people’s brain by any possible LIE that you can cobble you minions…………
PonyCar Resurrection
May 31, 2023 at 9:51 am
Or- you can create AI controlled meat bots to fight wars, Police Civilians, collect taxes.
SayRay
May 31, 2023 at 11:38 pm
Has 1984 arrived?
MrJeffrey938
June 1, 2023 at 5:13 pm
Here I was all paranoid about tech reading my thoughts as I lusted over Nita’s perfect face, then she takes a hard left turn into child death. Got me to sit up and listen. Good talk.
hyi yime- #NeverForget tech pigs dont prefer human
June 1, 2023 at 5:40 pm
There are hackers with Ai enslaving people as free victims
Striped Goat
June 3, 2023 at 9:48 am
The western world is on a completely wrong path… Trying to play God…
Evelyn Song
June 4, 2023 at 5:52 pm
the social and ethical issues of human brain – surveillence ‘cognitive liberty’ very inspiring talk