Artificial intelligence (AI) lets researchers interpret human thoughts, and the technology is sparking privacy concerns.
Thenew systemcan translate a persons brain activity while listening to a story into a continuous stream of text.
Its meant to help people who cant speak, such as those debilitated by strokes, to communicate.
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But there are concerns that the same techniques could one day be used to invade thoughts.
It is best to engineer privacy protections into a technology at the outset rather than as an afterthought.
Unlike other similar systems, the new technique does not require subjects to have surgical implants.
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This is a real leap forward compared to whats been done before.
“We’re getting the model to decode continuous language for extended periods of time with complicated ideas.”
And you’ve got the option to easily defeat the semantic decoder by simply thinking about different things.
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In many ways, we can already tell or predict what someone is thinking based on existing data sources.
“Privacy, if not dead, is in the ICU.
