Supporting and Advocating For Neuro Rights
Freedom and Cognitive Liberty For Individuals Under Duress By Neurotechnology
Neuro Rights, the encompass of ethical principles and protections related to the autonomy, privacy and well-being.
Advocating for neuro rights involves ensuring that individuals have control over their neural data, are protected from coercive or invasive uses of neurotechnology, and are treated with respect and dignity in research and applications involving the brain. Upholding neuro rights involves promoting transparency, informed consent, and responsible practices to safeguard individual rights in an increasingly complex and technologically advanced landscape of brain-related research and interventions.
“The Five Neuro Rights”
Mental privacy: You should have the right to seclude your brain data so that it’s not stored or sold without your consent.
Personal identity: You should have the right to be protected from alterations to your sense of self that you did not authorize.
Free will: You should retain ultimate control over your decision-making, without unknown manipulation from neurotechnologies.
Fair access to mental augmentation: When it comes to mental enhancement, everyone should enjoy equality of access, so that neurotechnology doesn’t only benefit the rich.
Protection from bias: Neurotechnology algorithms should be designed in ways that do not perpetuate bias against particular groups.
Rafael Yuste has been actively involved in exploring the intersection of neuroscience, artificial intelligence (AI), and neuro rights. As a prominent neuroscientist and one of the co-founders of the BRAIN Initiative, Yuste has advocated for the responsible development and ethical use of neurotechnology. His research on brain circuits and his work with AI have helped advance our understanding of the brain and its complexities. In considering neuro rights, Yuste has emphasized the importance of protecting individual cognitive liberty, mental privacy, and autonomy in the face of rapid advancements in neuroscience and AI. This intersection raises important ethical questions that Yuste and others in the field of neuroethics continue to address and discuss.
The NeuroRights Foundation is an organization that aims to address the ethical and legal implications surrounding advanced technologies, particularly those affecting the brain and mind. It focuses on advocating for the establishment and protection of “neurorights,” which are rights specifically designed to protect individuals’ mental privacy, identity, and agency in the face of increasingly powerful neurotechnology and artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
The concept of neurorights is gaining traction as neurotechnology advances, allowing for more sophisticated ways to both help and potentially harm individuals. This includes technologies capable of enhancing cognitive abilities, treating mental health conditions, or even potentially enabling forms of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that could merge human cognition with AI. With these advancements come significant ethical, social, and legal questions, such as how to protect individuals’ thought privacy or prevent the misuse of such technologies for coercive or harmful purposes.
The foundation advocates for the incorporation of these neurorights into national and international legal frameworks to ensure that technological progress does not outpace the safeguards needed to protect individual freedoms and rights. It seeks to stimulate a global conversation among policymakers, technologists, ethicists, and the general public to ensure a future in which neurotechnologies enhance human capabilities without compromising fundamental human rights.
https://neurorightsfoundation.org
Advocacy Services:
Consensual Agreements
Correlating and contacting companies and entities research in neuroscience and neurotechnologies. Promoting better and ethical procedures for individuals regardless of neurotechnologies used for experimentation, medical and scientific.
Information And Research
Maintaining research through the fields of neuro rights and exposing the truths about neurotechnologies and technological manipulations of the brain.
Support Group Advocacy For Victims Of Neurotechnology Without Consent
Providing a support commitment for individuals afflicted, neglected by neurotechnology.
Litigation
Providing a trustworthy effort for the process of litigation in America for neuro laws, neuro rights and initiating and establishing privacy rights for individuals.
AI Neural Networks
Super computers are used for scientific discovery and innovation.
High Permanence Computers (HPC) that can contribute to affecting an individuals neuro rights. HPC can be used to manipulate brain senses without actually knowing the processes are occurring.
Neural networks in AI are modeled after the structure and function of the human brain. They consist of interconnected nodes (artificial neurons) that process information and learn from data, similar to how neurons in the brain transmit signals and form connections.
Both neural networks in AI and the human brain are capable of learning from experience. AI neural networks use algorithms like back-propagation to adjust their connections based on input data, mimicking the learning process in biological neural networks.
AI neural networks have provided insights into how the brain may process information and learn. Researchers in neuroscience can study AI models to gain a better understanding of neural mechanisms and brain functions, potentially leading to advancements in neurotechnology and brain-computer interfaces.
Neural network models developed in AI have practical applications in neurotechnology, such as brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) and neuroprosthetics. These technologies use AI algorithms to interpret brain signals and facilitate communication between computers and the human brain, enabling new possibilities for medical treatments and cognitive enhancements but also can lead to the abuse of neurotechnologies.
Overall, the connection between AI neural networks and neurotechnology highlights the interdisciplinary nature of research in artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and biomedical engineering. By bridging these fields, scientists and engineers can leverage AI-inspired approaches to develop innovative solutions for understanding and interacting with the human brain.
Convergence of artificial intelligence and high performance computing on NSF-supported cyberinfrastructure
https://journalofbigdata.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40537-020-00361-2
A neural network consists of layers of interconnected nodes, known as neurons or units. These layers typically include an input layer, one or more hidden layers, and an output layer. Each neuron receives input, processes it using an activation function, and produces an output signal that is transmitted to neurons in the next layer. AI and deep learning processes can be easily used to affect the neurological data of the human mind. In summary. AI through the use of neurotechnology can manipulate an individuals consciousness without consent or the individuals awareness.
These super computing facilities play a crucial role in advancing scientific research, modeling complex systems, running simulations, and processing large amounts of data at incredibly high speeds.
Informing The Public And Litigation
Increasing Public Awareness and understanding of neurotechnology with AI powered networks and how AI neurotechnology can affect an individual without knowledge or consent. Drafting litigation processes for the occurrences of illegal hardware not recognized by certain affiliations that approve such technologies. More laws against such unwitting technologies need to be implemented.
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