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Anna Wexler

Anna Wexler

Filmmaker

Jun 10, 2026

5:33
Similarly to how we do for smartwatches and other wearables.
5:37
It's a really good question and there's no agreement over it.
5:40
So some people argue that there is something fundamentally unique about neural data itself, and that there's just this kind of unique feature because the brain has kind of a special importance as the seed of our thoughts of our mind, that sort of thing that we should assign special importance to neural data just by virtue of it being neural data.
6:01
So that's kind of one camp on the other camp, which I personally fall into myself.
6:06
is thinking more about the inferences that can be made from neural data.
6:09
So what can we actually infer from neural data? Like what are we concerned about? So are we concerned about the potential for revealing medical information or health information, potential diagnoses, things like that? We can already reveal those things in a lot of other ways.
6:26
Google searches, Facebook groups or social media groups that might have joined different digital phenotyping.
7:41
What are the main frameworks or guidelines that are currently in place or that are being developed? for ethical protections or ethical challenges of neural interfaces at large.

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