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Back to LibraryNita FarahanySociety, labor, and psychologyHuman autonomy and neuro-rightspublished
Your right to mental privacy in the age of brain-sensing tech
Farahany argues that brain-sensing technologies move AI-era governance into a new domain: mental privacy. She frames cognitive liberty as a rights architecture question that must be settled before sensing systems normalize.
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Why this matters
This expands the map beyond model safety into human sovereignty. It is a high-value anchor for long-run governance because it links autonomy, consent, and legal design before capability and adoption lock in.
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MixedSocietyMedium confidence
Risk-forwardCaution & harms
MixedBalanced framing
OpportunityUpside & deployment
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Mixed leaning, primarily in the Society lens. Evidence mode: interview. Confidence: medium.
- - Emphasizes governance
- - Emphasizes safety
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Joy BuolamwiniSociety, labor, and psychology
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Buolamwini demonstrates how dataset and evaluation failures become asymmetric real-world harm, especially when face and identity systems are operationalized in high-stakes settings. The talk connects technical error patterns to structural accountability gaps.
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Beware online "filter bubbles"
Pariser's filter-bubble thesis explains how personalized ranking environments fragment epistemic common ground and weaken the shared factual substrate required for democratic reasoning.
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Tristan HarrisGovernance and policy
Why AI is our ultimate test and greatest invitation
Harris presents frontier AI as a collective governance decision rather than a technical inevitability. The talk links social-media deployment failures to current AI rollout dynamics, arguing that capability acceleration without institutional counterweights produces predictable public harm.
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Ranked with the mirror rule in the methodology: picks sit closer to the opposite side of your score on the same axis (lens alignment preferred). Each card plots you and the pick together.
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Spectrum vs this page
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Near you on the spectrum — often same shelf or editorial thread, different conversation. Mixed · Society lens.
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Learning Human Biases with Rohin Shah
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Spectrum vs this page
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Med 0 · avg -3 · 53 segs
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how ai hacks your brain s attachment system with zak stein
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Spectrum vs this page
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