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Your Unspoken Words Can Now Be Read by MIT’s Alterego

Alterego, a company born out of MIT’s Media Lab, recently shared a demo of its “silent speech” device that looks like telepathy. Here’s what’s really going on. Read more about Alterego on CNET.com Telepathy Machine? Here’s What MIT’s AlterEgo Wearable Actually Does 0:00 Is This a Telepathy Machine? 0:10 How AlterEgo Detects Silent Speech 0:34…

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Alterego, a company born out of MIT’s Media Lab, recently shared a demo of its “silent speech” device that looks like telepathy. Here’s what’s really going on.

Read more about Alterego on CNET.com
Telepathy Machine? Here’s What MIT’s AlterEgo Wearable Actually Does

0:00 Is This a Telepathy Machine?
0:10 How AlterEgo Detects Silent Speech
0:34 Real-World Applications: Conversations and Translation
1:01 Controlling AI and Digital Systems
1:13 Prototype Development and Evolution
1:33 How it Works: Reading Intent vs. Reading Thoughts
1:47 Comparing AlterEgo to Implantable BCIs
2:12 Integrated Cameras and AI Visual Inputs
2:42 The Future of Wearable Tech and Accessibility

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48 Comments

  1. @videobiker9131

    March 8, 2026 at 9:06 am

    Absolutely, positively UH UH!!!!! 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎

    • @ddr8993

      March 8, 2026 at 10:23 am

      I know your secret.

    • @videobiker9131

      March 8, 2026 at 5:25 pm

      @ddr8993 what secret is that?

  2. @Gotinha123

    March 8, 2026 at 9:28 am

    1984 here we go

  3. @WilliamMoore-fx6qk

    March 8, 2026 at 9:32 am

    The conspiracy, This is old top secret spy technology that’s already existed for years…example, US government Chinese government etc … they drug you and inject a glass bead in your ear.. so small it doesn’t show up on a cat scan…then you are walking around for life with a “Bluetooth” transmitter broadcasting your thoughts to be intercepted….
    , If you complain about them using your thoughts against you… then people just call you crazy… perfect for controlling and manipulating people to do things they don’t want or deliver propaganda … inception without all the messy breaking into dreams within dreams… 😉

    • @H3d3h1d1

      March 8, 2026 at 1:28 pm

      It’s at least existed in CIA and military ops. You know they testing telepathy and communication between dreams in the 70s. Nothing is new we just didn’t have the power to test these things. AI was actually designed in 1943 and developed in the 50s.

    • @Earthsylewind

      March 8, 2026 at 2:41 pm

      Exactly! We don’t need this, this is just more surveillance technology on the public, humans can already do real telepathy it just has to be trained and unlocked but the good methods and technology for faster development is obviously being kept from the public

  4. @iversonpurwanto8933

    March 8, 2026 at 9:50 am

    Ghost in the shell

    • @Ghostintheeshell

      March 8, 2026 at 12:23 pm

      Huh?

  5. @TheNaiv69

    March 8, 2026 at 10:32 am

    off top of my head could be used as a lie detector? or chat while gaming? the deaf and other disabled people would find this useful the most i would imagine, military might buy this and bury it, lots of potential and misuse abound

  6. @Marx1684

    March 8, 2026 at 11:05 am

    I don’t need this. I’d be walking around with people thinking I’m bumping Big Sean’s, Dance (A$$) in all sorts of inappropriate situations. 😅

    After a few minutes in, it’s not as bad as I thought. 🤔
    Crazy world. Dope idea.

  7. @DELTA_FIVES

    March 8, 2026 at 11:06 am

    “Demonology” lady’s & Gentlemen.

    • @DELTA_FIVES

      March 8, 2026 at 11:06 am

      For transparency I am being sarcastic!

  8. @Ron-b2x1k

    March 8, 2026 at 11:21 am

    Build a big one, mobile. Just park outside and get rich..Secrets never spoke

  9. @hunterxcraft8328

    March 8, 2026 at 11:42 am

    So pair this with bone conductive headphones and better synthetic voice (cause that one works just sounds rough) and we have telepathy before gta 6 😭

  10. @kpnitrl38

    March 8, 2026 at 12:04 pm

    Finally!!! I get to have the power of Charles Xavier!

  11. @ravensbane2501

    March 8, 2026 at 12:09 pm

    How would this work with those of us blessed with facial hair? (ya’ know, instead of scalp hair -_-)

  12. @ddw6523

    March 8, 2026 at 12:52 pm

    Well!!sometime I am thinking one thing & say another could get in trouble 😂

  13. @H3d3h1d1

    March 8, 2026 at 1:26 pm

    If the communication compromised, there’s no one who can really prove anything because nothing was said lol.

  14. @prilep5

    March 8, 2026 at 1:40 pm

    Perfect for radio comm NAVY seals and other special forces

  15. @electrodomain

    March 8, 2026 at 1:43 pm

    Finally, I can give myself Tourette’s

  16. @FelipeKana1

    March 8, 2026 at 1:56 pm

    Aside from people with injuries that might need this, this is a bad idea

    • @thecourier3771

      March 8, 2026 at 6:51 pm

      I’m more worried that what I say is taken out of context, or impulsively said from intrusive thoughts, there’s a reason I think before I speak.

  17. @CinnamonStickk

    March 8, 2026 at 2:05 pm

    Well i’ve seen this person giving a talk, way back in 2018. It was magic then.

    • @Jahrobot

      March 9, 2026 at 6:48 pm

      It’s magic NOW 🤯

  18. @Earthsylewind

    March 8, 2026 at 2:37 pm

    I don’t like this is all, that would be giving them higher access to your thoughts, you can already do real telepathy it just has to be trained, what waves you think this technology to tapping into?

  19. @raytherockstar

    March 8, 2026 at 2:51 pm

    this is too creepy. i just see too many problems with this

  20. @kozyartificial

    March 8, 2026 at 3:06 pm

    Finally can talk to that girl I’ve been avoiding since puberty. 😮

  21. @joejuan5022

    March 8, 2026 at 4:08 pm

    closet racists will love this

  22. @4legdfishman

    March 8, 2026 at 4:29 pm

    I could see this being used in interrogations. Minus the waterboarding.
    Or, military operations where silence is a must.
    Or, my wife grilling me about my night out with the guys.
    Or, my wife grilling me about recent credit card purchases.
    Or, my wife grilling me about the missing vacation funds.
    Or, my wife grilling me about the calls she gets from men claiming to be casino security.
    Or, my wife grilling me about something called OnlyFans and why is our highest cost in the last 6 months.

  23. @jdoh4972

    March 8, 2026 at 5:06 pm

    Open Up My Brain Door HAL

  24. @matt.stevick

    March 8, 2026 at 6:28 pm

    actually??

  25. @matt.stevick

    March 8, 2026 at 7:15 pm

    0:18 they need a sales guy i can tell, u gotta sell the mind reading thing. get the ppl engaged, intrigued … _excited_ …

  26. @MirageTalks

    March 9, 2026 at 3:48 am

    this is perfect fit for spies

  27. @B-Moye

    March 9, 2026 at 8:36 am

    Thank God it can’t read my intrusive thoughts

  28. @DocGatt

    March 9, 2026 at 9:18 am

    This is incredible

  29. @PushpaYadav-r9p9h

    March 9, 2026 at 9:39 am

    Comment

  30. @atilkan

    March 9, 2026 at 11:20 am

    please NO

  31. @kakalalatata

    March 9, 2026 at 12:28 pm

    The elite are coming for your thoughts…

  32. @kakalalatata

    March 9, 2026 at 12:30 pm

    Neural Link is in trouble it seems.

  33. @axotorp2555

    March 9, 2026 at 12:35 pm

    Very cool looking head/jawset

  34. @Apeiron242

    March 9, 2026 at 3:18 pm

    Mind machine interface should be called Psionics. Like electronics and avionics.

    • @5lanediver

      March 9, 2026 at 9:10 pm

      but this is technology, not biology

  35. @CNET

    March 9, 2026 at 3:26 pm

    Read more about Alterego on CNET.com: Telepathy Machine? Here’s What MIT’s AlterEgo Wearable Actually Does

  36. @ViníciusCarvalho-n9u

    March 9, 2026 at 6:17 pm

    First april on March?

  37. @Didymus-Thomas

    March 9, 2026 at 6:22 pm

    Literally my entire existence is subvocalization. I do not have many moments where speech is not going through my mind. I wonder if that uses a lot of brain energy and I’m terribly inefficient at thinking

  38. @nobilismaximus

    March 9, 2026 at 6:55 pm

    Sometimes things shouldn’t be invented. The last real privacy was in your mind but now government can wire you up and wait for you to incriminate yourself.

  39. @shrimpinpat

    March 9, 2026 at 8:30 pm

    I do this in my head all day it would be reading my thoughts

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