For those few who might care, I've got a short piece in the @law.stanford.edu magazine on the 50th anniversary of the opening of our main building complex, Crown Quadrangle.
law.stanford.edu/stanford-law...
It was fun to write.
The only appropriate question is how threatening the mass genocide of innocent people can possibly be ok.
It cannot.
No, I am not ok.
No, this is not ok.
No, we can never repair the damage from what has been said.
An add to limits on cloning mice www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I noted earlier that 58 generations of humans would be about 1600 yrs. But, also, if you froze cells from the 1st, or other early, clones, you should be able to restart with them. Say, run 30 generations then start again. Indefinitely?
Ah, @nitafarahany.bsky.social on "the biggest lie on the internet": our "consents".
nitafarahany.substack.com/p/the-bigges...
SO true; such a problem for contract law, conceptually at least. ("Contract law" doesn't seem to care, tho)
This one habit is controlling your thoughts and actions.
Learn what @nitafarahany.bsky.social says is impeding our ability to think freely from our #FreeSpeechSummit2025.
Does our ability to speak freely matter if we can't think freely?
At our #FreeSpeechSummit2025, @nitafarahany.bsky.social argues that one carries a bigger risk.
Stalin needed violence. Orwell needed telescreens. All we needed was a "notification."
At our #FreeSpeechSummit2025, @nitafarahany.bsky.social argues that the battle for our attention is shaping the marketplace of ideas right under our noses.
Are distractions taking over your ability to think freely?
At our #FreeSpeechSummit2025, @nitafarahany.bsky.social shares how you can take back your cognitive liberty.
With an expanding AI industry, more companies are finding ways to analyze data straight from your brain. @nitafarahany.bsky.social, an expert on the implications of emerging technologies, joins @djrothkopf.bsky.social to explore this and more. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
youtu.be/LZRgJLvQBPE
@nitafarahany.bsky.social heard you on podcast with @djrothkopf.bsky.social - Fascinating, yet existential. Sounds like Surveillance Capitalism 2.0 - Now following. Good luck with your book!
Excellent introduction into AI red teaming by @nitafarahany.bsky.social including an AI vulnerability crash course, the issue of emergent situational awareness and what role legal / AI governance teams have in red teaming.
nitafarahany.substack.com/p/red-teamin...
We can decode brain states—but we still don’t know what consciousness is.
So what are we really regulating?
Neuroethicist Professor Nita Farahany on cognitive liberty and the meaning of being human.
@nitafarahany.bsky.social
#cognitiveliberty #neuroethics #consciousness
Great TeachPrivacy event on "#Privacy of the #Mind" w/ Daniel Solove interviewing Nita Farahany (Duke Law), author of "The Battle for Your Brain" about the latest developments in mental privacy & neurotechnology.
www.linkedin.com/events/74123... @daniel-solove.bsky.social @nitafarahany.bsky.social
From perfume counters to police interrogations—brain data is already being captured, analyzed, and repurposed.
Neuroethicist Professor Nita Farahany on the coming intensification of neurotech.
@nitafarahany.bsky.social
#cognitiveliberty #neurotechnology #mentalprivacy
I wonder how many Iranian protesters Trump just got killed. "Go ahead, protest, the US has your back." Oh, wait, never mind.
I'm almost done listening to The King of Kings, a new history of the 1979 Iranian Revolution by Scott Anderson. VERY good, I think. I just got to the part wh/the new regime
This is smart, & timely. @nitafarahany.bsky.social on whether the US is really "at war" (w/China) over AI & why the framing may matter. Trump signed an Executive Order on Monday calling his AI project “comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project.”
open.substack.com/pub/staytune...
ICYMI, good @statnews.com piece on FDA de novo authorization of the Q collar as a sports concussion prevention & how it misleads people. And, bigger than one device, how softening FDA "approvals," "authorizations," and "clearances" is bad. www.statnews.com/2025/11/02/q...
Pig kidney removed after 9 working mo www.science.org/content/arti...
BUT I never knew about a 61 yr old record!
"The xenotransplant record Andrews had been about to pass belonged to Edyth Parker, a 23-yr-old Louisiana school teacher. On 13 January 1964, Parker received a transplant of a chimpanzee
Mirror mirror on the wall. What happens when Ai manipulates us all?
open.substack.com/pub/nitafara...
Take a free (virtual) seat in @nitafarahany.bsky.social's Duke Law class. This week, "When Anyone Can Fake Anything" the state of #deepfakes, their harms, and the difficulty detecting them. nitafarahany.substack.com/p/when-anyon...
#AI #DukeLaw #PostTruth #TechEthics #TechPolicy
At #FreeSpeechSummit2025, @nitafarahany.bsky.social discusses our cognitive liberty in the digital age.
The possibilities but also the risks of #neurotechnology in this #TEDtalk 'Your right to mental privacy in the age of brain-sensing tech' (www.ted.com/talks/nita_f...) by @nitafarahany.bsky.social #neurotech #BrainSensing #privacy #neuroethics #neurorights
If you're working to get ahead of the AI-curve in order to try to shape our collective future, @nitafarahany.bsky.social is must-read.
TL;DR
- AI definitions and how to think about them
- AI ethical issues I'd not thought about
- Creativity
- How to write better
open.substack.com/pub/nitafara...
Sam Altman wants to merge your brain with artificial intelligence.
@nitafarahany.bsky.social breaks down the risks of brain-computer interfaces and what the technology could mean for the future of AI.
Read: staytuned.substack.com/p/the-tech-t...
