Nita Farahany
2024 Walter R. Smith Visiting Scholar Series
Featuring: Nita Farahany
The Battle for Your Brain: Defending Your Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology
Thursday, March 28, 2024 | 7:00 pm
SUNY Corning Community College | Main Dining Room
(Also Streaming Live on Zoom)
Formal registration for the event is no longer required.
We hope you can join us in person, but if you cannot please use the zoom link to watch the event live on Thursday, March 28th at 7:00 pm.
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Nita Farahany is the Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law & Philosophy and Founding
Director of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society. She is a widely published scholar
on the ethics of emerging technologies, including the book The Battle for Your Brain: Defending Your Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology. She spearheads research on futurism, law, and ethical implications of emerging technologies
for society—offering a roadmap for cognitive freedom in our increasingly interconnected
world.
Imagine a world where employers can see into their workers’ brains. Where your thoughts
can be tracked through AI. And where you can peer into your own mind to cure addictions.
All of this is possible today, thanks to the merging of Artificial Intelligence and
neuroscience. In the brilliant new book The Battle For Your Brain, Nita Farahany offers us a much-needed map to navigate this fast-changing technological
landscape. How do we avoid the dangers of lost privacy and rights while taking advantage
of the unprecedented opportunities? With the rapid advance of wearable neurotech and
generative AI (think ChatGPT), we face important ethical questions about privacy,
human rights, equity—and even what it means to be human. “We are at a pivotal moment
in human history, in which control of our brains can be enhanced or lost,” Nita says.
“We need to define contours of cognitive liberty now or risk being too late to do
so.” But these technologies, Nita argues, are also an opportunity to transform how
we learn, work, and live.
Nita leads audiences on an optimistic, but cautionary, tour through the future of AI programs, like ChatGPT, and neurotechnology. She goes over the necessary regulations and shifts that need to be implemented with this rapidly developing technology, including how employers must build employee trust when adopting new technologies in the workplace. If we want to make the most out of AI and neurotech, transparency is vital.
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Register for the 2024 Walter R. Smith Visiting Scholar Series, featuring Nita Farahany
This event is free and open to the public
Thursday, March 28, 2024 at 7:00pm
SUNY Corning Community College / Main Dining Room - Commons Building and streamed live via Zoom
Formal registration for the event is no longer required and we hope you can join us in person, but if you cannot please use the zoom link below to watch the event live on Thursday, March 28th at 7:00 pm.
https://corning-cc-edu.zoom.us/j/94085563505
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