Biohacking, is it ethical?

[The Hammer]

Hackable Humans at WEF: 'We Can Decode Faces in Your Mind, Your PIN'

“Artificial intelligence has enabled advances in decoding brain activity in ways we never before thought possible,” said Farahany.

“What you think, what you feel — it’s all just data — data that in large patterns can be decoded using artificial intelligence,” she added.

And the devices to decode the human brain don’t have to be as invasive as a brain implant.

The devices can be as non-invasive as a “Fitbit for your brain.”



Your thoughts and feelings may no longer be your own.

Is this a future we are truly ready for?

I for one am against this sort of bio monitoring outside of anything but healthcare and even then should be restricted, but I am a pessimist on the best of days.

 

[Heyo]

Hackable Humans at WEF: 'We Can Decode Faces in Your Mind, Your PIN'

“Artificial intelligence has enabled advances in decoding brain activity in ways we never before thought possible,” said Farahany.

“What you think, what you feel — it’s all just data — data that in large patterns can be decoded using artificial intelligence,” she added.

And the devices to decode the human brain don’t have to be as invasive as a brain implant.

The devices can be as non-invasive as a “Fitbit for your brain.”



Your thoughts and feelings may no longer be your own.

Is this a future we are truly ready for?

I for one am against this sort of bio monitoring outside of anything but healthcare and even then should be restricted, but I am a pessimist on the best of days.

For an ethical use of that, some serious security measures have to be implemented. The potential for health benefits are enormous, but so is the potential for abuse.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Is this a future we are truly ready for?

Medical research is great. Things like the tortures of Tuskegee and MK Ultra are not.
I will say I am glad we already have review boards for experiments involving people, because out of everything that's been done this one could get very ugly, nasty, and terrible in the wrong hands. I'm not at all against it, but sound reason and wise decisions are very necessary with such a powerful thing.
And when did we start calling it biohacking? Last I knew we were gene editing (unless it's stupid rich boys who think they can cheat the Reaper).

 

[Stevicus]

Hackable Humans at WEF: 'We Can Decode Faces in Your Mind, Your PIN'

“Artificial intelligence has enabled advances in decoding brain activity in ways we never before thought possible,” said Farahany.

“What you think, what you feel — it’s all just data — data that in large patterns can be decoded using artificial intelligence,” she added.

And the devices to decode the human brain don’t have to be as invasive as a brain implant.

The devices can be as non-invasive as a “Fitbit for your brain.”



Your thoughts and feelings may no longer be your own.

Is this a future we are truly ready for?

I for one am against this sort of bio monitoring outside of anything but healthcare and even then should be restricted, but I am a pessimist on the best of days.

Huh. I thought the idea of mind-reading and the "psychic friends network" was a bunch of hooey. So, there really is a scientific basis to mind reading?

 

[Brickjectivity]

Is this a future we are truly ready for?

No, but ready or not here we come.

I can think of some positive uses.

 

[Quintessence]

A rather unfortunate piece of "journalism" that focuses on evoking emotions rather than on the facts. Which is especially ironic, given the topic.

Only the most myopic materialist would reduce our thoughts and emotions down to "just data" and believe copying them out of our brains is somehow the same as us actually experiencing them directly in the first person. While we are at it, let us panic about the ability to copy thoughts outside of our brains with typed words on a computer. oH nOeS mY tHoUgHtS aRe No LoNgEr My OwN nOw!!!!

This isn't to say there aren't issues. But man, that article is... not a great one. It goes the way of chicken little a wee bit too quickly. And I'm kind of a luddite...

 

[Brickjectivity]

A rather unfortunate piece of "journalism" that focuses on evoking emotions rather than on the facts. Which is especially ironic, given the topic.

Only the most myopic materialist would reduce our thoughts and emotions down to "just data" and believe copying them out of our brains is somehow the same as us actually experiencing them directly in the first person. While we are at it, let us panic about the ability to copy thoughts outside of our brains with typed words on a computer. oH nOeS mY tHoUgHtS aRe No LoNgEr My OwN nOw!!!!

This isn't to say there aren't issues. But man, that article is... not a great one. It goes the way of chicken little a wee bit too quickly. And I'm kind of a luddite...

I sometimes watch science fiction films. There is a film called Robot Overlords which partly illustrates the concept you have described. A non terrestrial group of machines from space conquers Earth, then it proceeds to try and reduce our knowledge to pure data, and it considers such reduction equivalent to immortality. It is killing people to reduce their minds to pure data. The humans are unable to convince the machines otherwise.

 

[Quintessence]

I sometimes watch science fiction films. There is a film called Robot Overlords which partly illustrates the concept you have described. A non terrestrial group of machines from space conquers Earth, then it proceeds to try and reduce our knowledge to pure data, and it considers such reduction equivalent to immortality. It is killing people to reduce their minds to pure data. The humans are unable to convince the machines otherwise.

That... are you sure that wasn't a horror film?

 

[Brickjectivity]

That... are you sure that wasn't a horror film?

That is only the premise. We win, so no.