Neurotechnology (AI + BRAIN TECH) with Dr. Nita Farahany

Machine poets. ChatGPT fails. Neurological surveillance. Brain implants that treat depression. Is it scary? Cool? Let’s firehose some questions at Duke Law professor, neuro and bioethicist, author and TED speaker Dr. Nita Farahany. She explains the history of AI, the dawn of chatbots, what’s changed recently, the potential for good, the possible perils, how different lawmakers are stepping in, and whether or not this is scary dinner party conversation. Do you have feelings about AI and brain implants? Hopefully, and we talk about why.

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Buy Dr. Nita Farahany’s books: The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology (2023) and The Impact of Behavioral Sciences on Criminal Law (2009)

Dr. Farahany’s 2023 TED Talk: Your right to mental privacy in the age of brain-sensing tech

Follow Dr. Farahany on Instagram, TikTok and Twitter

A donation was made to Human Rights Watch


Links to things we discussed:

Understanding the 4 Types of Artificial intelligence

Introducing ChatGPT

GPT-4 is OpenAI’s most advanced system, producing safer and more useful responses

Gen Z has a new ‘vintage’ technology to obsess over

Deepfake Keanu Reeves

An electroencephalogram (EEG) is a test to measure the electrical activity of the brain

Functional MRI of the Brain

Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Its Clinical Application in the Field of Neuroscience: Advances and Future Directions

This Startup Wants to Get in Your Ears and Watch Your Brain

Our EEG Headset Reviews: We Look For The Best EEG Headset On The Market Today

Using A.I. to Detect Breast Cancer That Doctors Miss

See how AI detected woman's breast cancer 4 years before it developed

MIT researchers develop an AI model that can detect future lung cancer risk

Striking SAG Actors in Disbelief Over Studios’ Dystopian AI Proposal

AI watch: from Wimbledon to job losses in journalism

More countries across Asia are debuting digital artificial intelligence news readers. Could Australia follow suit?

Karl Sharrow’s tweet about art and AI

UNESCO’s Ethics of Artificial Intelligence webpage

OECD AI Principles overview

Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights

Center for AI Safety

MEPs ready to negotiate first-ever rules for safe and transparent AI

EU AI Act: first regulation on artificial intelligence

'Free speech for humans, not computers': Ex Google CEO Eric Schmidt thinks AI will impact 2024 elections

Reflections on AI and the future of human flourishing

The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future (2022) by Orly Lobel

Explained: Neural networks; Ballyhooed artificial-intelligence technique known as “deep learning” revives 70-year-old idea

Brain stimulation acts ‘like a switch’ to turn off severe depression for one patient

Here’s What Happens When Your Lawyer Uses ChatGPT

Center for AI Safety’s Statement on AI Risk

Lawyers fined for filing bogus case law created by ChatGPT

OpenAI CEO Testifies on Artificial Intelligence

Neuralink Monkey Types With Brain Implant, Elon Musk Says Human Testing Coming

Elon Musk's Neuralink has FDA approval to put chips in humans' brains. Here's what's next.

Artificial Intelligence - Office of Educational Technology

Is the AI apocalypse actually coming? What life could look like if robots take over

Minority Report on Rotten Tomatoes


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