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The Last Frontier: Big Tech Wants To Read Your Thoughts

• https://www.technocracy.news, By Garfield Benjamin

Not content with monitoring almost everything you do online, Facebooknow wants to read your mind as well. The social media giant recently announced a breakthrough in its plan to create a device that reads people's brainwaves to allow them to type just by thinking. And Elon Musk wants to go even further. One of the Tesla boss's other companies, Neuralink, is developing a brain implant to connect people's minds directly to a computer.

Musk admits that he takes inspiration from science fiction and that he wants to make sure humans can "keep up" with artificial intelligence. He seems to have missed the part of sci-fi that acts as a warning for the implications of technology.

These mind-reading systems could affect our privacy, security, identity, equality and personal safety. Do we really want all that left to companies with philosophies such as that of Facebook's former mantra, "move fast and break things"?


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