A revised version of my "...Lessons from Brazil" paper written with a legal scholar colleague from Brazil is now online. We discuss a nuance possible in dealing with emerging neurotech concerns through data regulation (perhaps instead of novel neurorights) bioethicsopenresearch.org/articles/1-3/v2

I wrote a short paper on lying. Have a look 👇👇👇 "Is it Ever Right to Lie? How Ethical Questions Bring us to Philosophy of Mind" cambridge.org/core/journals/…

1/🧵 Lots of fuss and bother about the announcement from Neuralink today about having implanted their tech in a human brain for the first time. bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…

I was interviewed for an article in The New Statesman recently, about Big Tech and access to brains. I'm banging the drum for brain data protection, as usual! See the whole piece here: newstatesman.com/science-tech/b…

A brief thread about a new paper by me on neurotech & human rights. Right at the time when #Neuralink reports its first in-human brain-computer interface implant (which is btw not the first brain implant, but a new device implanted through a new method)../ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Want to hear about brain-machine interfaces (#BCI) + what Elon Musk’s #Neuralink is doing with them? 🤖 I’m live on TRT World Roundtable at 3pm GMT today with Stephen Rainey, Berkay Özbek & enda brady. Tune in on Sky channel 513 or watch live here 📺: youtube.com/live/5VF4aor94…

I was interviewed for TU Delft's "Pioneering Tech", on philosophy and novel BCI interfaces tudelft.nl/en/innovation-…

And for those keen to see how the discussion covered, the programme is now available here: trtworld.com/video/roundtab…

A big question looms over generative AI: what really is its impact on the environment? I spent months investigating a single campus of Microsoft data centers in the Arizona desert - designated in part for OpenAI - in an attempt to find out. Thread. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

It was great chatting with Rianne Lindhout about all things neuro, and worth thinking about especially in #BrainAwarenessWeek

Great piece here on how hyper-ambition is fostered in academia, to the detriment of careful scholarship

April 2024 - "Colorado Governor Jared Polis on Wednesday signed into law the first measure passed in the U.S. that aims to protect the data found in a person's brainwaves." reuters.com/technology/fir… May 2023 "Philosophical Perspectives on Brain Data" link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

In a historic milestone, California Assembly Committee unanimously approves our Neurorights Bill #SB1223 in a 10-0 vote following testimonies from Jared Genser Sean Pauzauskie. We express deep gratitude to Senator Josh Becker for sponsoring legislative efforts.

We wrote about exoskeletons! Stephen Rainey 👇👇👇

Law & Neurotech (and especially human rights) people: Next month, we host one of the largest conferences on the the topic for a long time, with speakers from all continents. Please consider coming by in Geneva. Registration is open. memento.epfl.ch/event/hybrid-m…