{"id":32299,"date":"2021-07-15T13:08:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T20:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/?p=32299"},"modified":"2021-07-15T13:08:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T20:08:58","slug":"big-tech-could-control-our-minds-with-brain-chips-within-ten-years-unless-there-are-new-neuro-laws-scientists-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/big-tech-could-control-our-minds-with-brain-chips-within-ten-years-unless-there-are-new-neuro-laws-scientists-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Big tech could control our minds with brain chips within ten years unless there are new \u2018neuro laws\u2019, scientists warn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
BIG tech companies could end up meddling with our minds and manipulating our decisions and views within ten years, leading brain scientists have warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A group of top American neuroscientists are demanding regulation before technology takes the next step – with brain chips potentially replacing smart phones as our main access to the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is feared if unregulated this spectacular new technology – which could avaliable commercially within the next decade – could turn its into “puppets”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The prediction that mirrors the plot of Hollywood films such as Inception, in which Leonardo DiCaprio plays a thief who steals information by infiltrating his targets\u2019 subconscious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Rafael Yuste, a neuroscience professor at New York\u2019s Columbia University and organiser of the Morningside Group of scientists and ethicists, said this dystopia is no longer science fiction and could soon become a sinister reality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He told The Sun Online that tech giants are ploughing colossal sums of money in a race to develop the next generation of devices that will replace smartphones and wire up our brains to the net. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Facebook is busy working on fusing the brains with computers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s firm Neuralink has been experimenting with interfacing technology with monkey\u2019s minds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Social media and search engines have already come under fire for allegedly using biased search engine systems that control the information we read and see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The firms have also been slammed for harvested our data and then using it to sell things to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, it feared they could go one step further, with algorithms used by next-generation technology that might inadvertently hijack our brains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Instead of humans controlling the amazing tech, could it end up controlling us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prof Yuste said in doing so an individual risks confusing their own thoughts and opinions with what is being fed into their brains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prof Yuste said: “We think this is a very serious concern. They could violate the essence of what makes us human. The contents of our mind are our identity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We are talking about building hybrid humans with brain technology interfaces to the net.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The threat to humanity is so grave, claim the Morningside Group, they are calling for a set of “neuro-rights” to be added to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The campaigners aim to guard the brain against abuse from new technologies which could harvest our thoughts and influence how we think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Would [attacks] come in the form of just new information put into the brain?” he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n