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Seth's avatar

For whatever it's worth, current 'mind reading' technology is better understood as 'neurally controlled' technology. For example, a paralyzed patient using a robotic arm via neural implant; the robot is not reading the patient's mind so much as the patient's mind has figured out how to control the robot. The robot runs some statistical models to try to meet the patient halfway, but that's as far as it goes. AFAIK pretty much all brain-machine interfaces are like this.

For this (among other) reasons, I think dystopia-level mind reading is very, if not infinitely, far off. There are just much easier ways to get a dystopia!

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Dawn Walter's avatar

Susie Alegre, an international human rights lawyer, would argue that tech companies like Meta and Google already can read our minds. She wrote about freedom of thought in her book, Freedom To Think (published in 2022).

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