Thu Jan 19, 2023 – 8:52 pm EST
DAVOS, Switzerland (LifeSiteNews) — A World Economic Forum (WEF) speaker on Thursday hailed the “extraordinary promise” of the use of mind-reading devices in the workplace while admitting that they could be “the most oppressive technology” ever used at “large scale across society.”
Wearable mind-reading devices are not a figment of the future — they’re already here, asserted Nita Farahany, legal ethicist and author of “The Battle for Your Brain,” during her talk “Ready for Brain Transparency?” during the WEF’s 2023 annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
Like “Fitbits for the brain,” “already, using consumer-wearable devices — these are headbands, hats that have sensors that can pick up your brain wave activity, earbuds, headphones, tiny tattoos that you can wear behind your ear — we can pick up emotional states,” like happiness or sadness or anger, said Farahany.
“We can pick up and decode faces that you’re seeing in your mind, simple shapes, numbers, your pin number,” she explained, adding that such technology could therefore give access to “your bank account.”
Farahany predicted that in the “near-term future,” such devices will become “the primary way with which we interact with
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