Top 10 AI Speaker Nita Farahany: The New Frontier of AI? Your Brain
What if your boss could monitor how focused you are throughout the day? Or track how tired someone is to keep them safe on the road? What if you could retrain your brain to treat PTSD or depression? Turns out, all these things are already possible, thanks to a combination of AI and neuroscience. And we’ve barely scratched the surface. “Today, we know and track virtually nothing that’s happening in our own brains,” says leading AI policy speaker Nita Farahany. “But in a future that is coming much faster than you realize, all of that is about to change.” Nita is the author of the brilliant book The Battle for Your Brain, a vital roadmap for navigating the emerging risks and opportunities of brain-sensing tech. In talks, she explores crucial questions around privacy, healthcare, human rights, and equity, showing us how we can take hold of this technology and use it for everyone’s good.
What does Nita speak about?
The integration of AI and neuroscience offers us unprecedented opportunity, says Nita: “Consumer neurotech devices could finally enable us to treat our brain health and wellness as seriously as we treat the rest of our physical well-being.” But it comes with a host of potential pitfalls. Now that AI can read our thoughts, how do we ensure our brains still belong to us alone?
As the director of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society, Nita is one of the world’s most essential and trusted voices on the rise of these technologies—she even spoke about “cognitive liberty” (the right to freedom of thought) at the New York Times DealBook Summit, alongside leaders like Mark Zuckerberg and Volodymyr Zelensky.
“We haven’t yet passed the inflection point where most of our brains can be directly accessed and changed by others. But it is about to happen, giving us a final moment to make a change,” Nita says. “We can and should be hopeful and deliberate about the choices we make now to secure a right to self-determination over our brains and mental experiences. The possibilities, if we do so, are limited only by our imagination.”
Who is Nita?
This AI policy speaker is the Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law & Philosophy at Duke University. She and her writing have been featured in The Guardian, Bloomberg, TIME, WIRED, The New York Times, and many more. Her book, The Battle for Your Brain, has been called “a fascinating and provocative tour of technologies that have the power to transform our lives for the better and even what it means to be human” (Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna, co-inventor of CRISPR technology).
Former President Obama appointed Nita to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, where she served for seven years. She currently serves on the National Advisory Council for the National Institute for Neurological Disease and Stroke, as an elected member of the American Law Institute and on the Global Future Council on Frontier Risks for the World Economic Forum, among others.
How do I learn more about Nita?
Interested in learning more about this top AI policy speaker? Get in touch with us at our Contact Us page, read more about Nita and our other top AI speakers, or watch Nita’s TED Talk on privacy and ethics in an age of AI:
What does Nita speak about?
The integration of AI and neuroscience offers us unprecedented opportunity, says Nita: “Consumer neurotech devices could finally enable us to treat our brain health and wellness as seriously as we treat the rest of our physical well-being.” But it comes with a host of potential pitfalls. Now that AI can read our thoughts, how do we ensure our brains still belong to us alone?
As the director of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society, Nita is one of the world’s most essential and trusted voices on the rise of these technologies—she even spoke about "cognitive liberty" (the right to freedom of thought) at the New York Times DealBook Summit, alongside leaders like Mark Zuckerberg and Volodymyr Zelensky.
“We haven't yet passed the inflection point where most of our brains can be directly accessed and changed by others. But it is about to happen, giving us a final moment to make a change,” Nita says. “We can and should be hopeful and deliberate about the choices we make now to secure a right to self-determination over our brains and mental experiences. The possibilities, if we do so, are limited only by our imagination.”
Who is Nita?
This AI policy speaker is the Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law & Philosophy at Duke University. She and her writing have been featured in The Guardian, Bloomberg, TIME, WIRED, The New York Times, and many more. Her book, The Battle for Your Brain, has been called “a fascinating and provocative tour of technologies that have the power to transform our lives for the better and even what it means to be human” (Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna, co-inventor of CRISPR technology).
Former President Obama appointed Nita to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, where she served for seven years. She currently serves on the National Advisory Council for the National Institute for Neurological Disease and Stroke, as an elected member of the American Law Institute and on the Global Future Council on Frontier Risks for the World Economic Forum, among others.
How do I learn more about Nita?
Interested in learning more about this top AI policy speaker? Get in touch with us at our Contact Us page, read more about Nita and our other top AI speakers, or watch Nita’s TED Talk on privacy and ethics in an age of AI:
https://youtu.be/k5jEkTm5GIU?feature=shared
