Allan McCay (Deputy Director of The Sydney Institute of Criminology and an Academic Fellow at the University of Sydney's Law School) discusses How Neurotechnology could endanger human rights on TedX. Here is the abstract:
The impressive recent advances in neurotechnology, led by investment from some of the worlds’ most powerful companies and militaries, offer incredible opportunities from everything from the metaverse to medical treatments. But this technology will also have many implications that we aren’t prepared for. Could this technology be used in sentencing, or criminal justice? How will employers use it to continue the trend of workplace surveillance? And who will have access to the data being captured once we have these devices implanted in our heads? In this talk, Allan McCay argues that existing legal protections and definitions such as The Universal Declaration of Human Rights are no longer fit for purpose if we take into consideration the ethical, legal and social problems that will come from this technology.
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