U.N. Warns Against Technology That Can Read People's Minds
A U.N. secretary-general's report warns that new technologies could be used to access people's innermost thoughts and to criminalize them.
A report prepared by the secretary-general of the United Nations has issued a warning about new technologies capable of reaching into people's inner mental lives.
According to the report, such tools could be used not only to gain access to what people think, but also to criminalize those thoughts. In other words, there is a risk that individuals could be held to account for thoughts they have never voiced and that have so far remained private.
The warning appears in a report covered by The New York Times. The source material available contains no further details about the document, including any specific recommendations, the technologies in question, or which countries might use them, so none are included here.
