Machine poets. ChatGPT fails. Neurological surveillance. Brain implants that treat depression. Is it scary? Cool? Let’s firehose some questions at Duke Law professor, neuro and bioethicist, author and TED speaker Dr. Nita Farahany. She explains the history of AI, the dawn of chatbots, what’s changed recently, the potential for good, the possible perils, how different lawmakers are stepping in, and whether or not this is scary dinner party conversation. Do you have feelings about AI and brain implants? Hopefully, and we talk about why.
Buy Dr. Nita Farahany’s books: The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology (2023) and The Impact of Behavioral Sciences on Criminal Law (2009)
Dr. Farahany’s 2023 TED Talk: Your right to mental privacy in the age of brain-sensing tech
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Garology (LONG CUTE ANCIENT PATIENT BOOPABLE NIGHTMARE FISH) Encore for GAR WEEK with Solomon David
Neuroparasitology (NATURE ZOMBIES) with Matt Simon
Smologies #30: SPIDERWEBS with Randy Lewis
Teratology (MONSTERS) with W. Scott Poole
Pomology (APPLES) with Susan K. Brown
Smologies #29: PUMPKINS with Anne Copeland
Witchology (WITCHES & WITCHCRAFT) Part 2 with Fio Gede Parma
Witchology (WITCHES & WITCHCRAFT) Part 1 with Fio Gede Parma
Smologies #28: AGING with Caleb Finch
Benthopelagic Nematology (DEEP SEA WORMS) with Holly Bik
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Smologies #26: POOP with Rachel Santymire
Etymology (WORD ORIGINS) Encore with Helen Zaltzman
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