The Future of Brain-Based Rights: Neuro Rights Foundation
In this blog post, I would like to recommend the awesome and thought-provoking website, which is thinking about the future that might not be so far away. Right now.
The website I would like to recommend to visit today is: NeuroRightsFoundation
Introduction
The mission of the Neurorights Foundation is to promote the rights of these innovations that are emerging. Their goal is to protect human rights and ensure the ethical development of neurotechnologies.
Documentary Film
They also have a documentary film related to brain-computer interfaces. It is fascinating.
They are offering free screenings to scientists, research groups, medical campuses, academics, and policy organizations. You can check their trailer:
You can watch trailer for this documentary on YouTube
Definition of Neurotechnology
They are defining neurotechnology as technologies that are recording or interfering with brain activity, such devices include brain-computer interfaces. As they have the potential to alter humans fundamentally.
Neuro-Rights Protection
Their goal is to protect human rights from the misuse or abuse of neurotechnologies. Working to incorporate critical Neuro-Rights into international human rights law and regulatory frameworks. The foundation works at international, national, industry, and general public levels. Trying to establish a human rights framework for neurotechnology policy.
Publications & Research Papers
In their publications, they are constantly advocating for neurodata privacy and neurotechnology regulations. Using such articles as Advocating for Neurodata Privacy and Neurotechnology Regulation
In their press, they also have very interesting articles covering different ethical dilemmas at this point, before there are many regulations regarding the matter. One of their PRESS releases The Right to Not Have Your Mind Read to TheAtlantic
A very interesting snippet I found funny in this article was a link to another older post that states: How brain scientists forgot that brains have owners
They also compile recent and significant research papers related to neurotechnologies, summarizing questions, methods, and findings for non-scientific audiences.
Conclusion
In conclusion, I do hope you will visit their website and look through it, to have some general knowledge on the matter. Additionally, you can start thinking about the future and how in this lifetime, we will need to tackle such problems.
If you are interested in Brain-Computer interfaces and other emerging technologies. Please browse around my blog and check out some of the articles I’ve published on similar topics.
If you are still eager for knowledge. You can check out more recent posts looking into whether you should use Neuralink.
