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From the Ted Talk by Nita Farahany: When technology can read minds, how will we protect our privacy?
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With our growing capabilities in neuroscience, aariiictfl intelligence and machine learning, we may soon know a lot more of what's happening in the human brain. As a btshoiiiect, a lawyer, a philosopher and an Iranian-American, I'm deeply concerned about what this means for our feeomrds and what kinds of protections we need. I believe we need a right to cognitive liberty, as a human right that needs to be protected. If not, our freedom of thought, access and conrotl over our own brains and our mtnael privacy will be threatened.
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With our growing capabilities in neuroscience, __________ intelligence and machine learning, we may soon know a lot more of what's happening in the human brain. As a ___________, a lawyer, a philosopher and an Iranian-American, I'm deeply concerned about what this means for our ________ and what kinds of protections we need. I believe we need a right to cognitive liberty, as a human right that needs to be protected. If not, our freedom of thought, access and _______ over our own brains and our ______ privacy will be threatened.
Solution
- bioethicist
- freedoms
- mental
- artificial
- control
Original Text
With our growing capabilities in neuroscience, artificial intelligence and machine learning, we may soon know a lot more of what's happening in the human brain. As a bioethicist, a lawyer, a philosopher and an Iranian-American, I'm deeply concerned about what this means for our freedoms and what kinds of protections we need. I believe we need a right to cognitive liberty, as a human right that needs to be protected. If not, our freedom of thought, access and control over our own brains and our mental privacy will be threatened.
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