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VIOLANTE: NEUROTECHNOLOGY THREATENS THE FREEDOM AND INTEGRITY OF THE HUMAN BRAIN

Luciano Violante,president of Leonardo Foundation-Civilization of Machines ETS, recently highlighted the need to protect neurorights at the " State of Privacy-focus on Artificial Intelligence" conference held in Florence.

Violante said that although neurotechnology can positively revolutionize our lives, it also risks turning our brains into a field of surveillance and manipulation.

This is why it is crucial to establish a set of ethical-legal rights and restrictions.

Neurorights include:

1. Protection of mental privacy: brain data must be handled with the utmost confidentiality and strictly regulated in terms of use, sale, and commercial transfer.

2. Protection of personal identity: It is essential to safeguard the sense of self by limiting technologies that could alter it.

3. Equitable access to neurotechnologies: Ensure that everyone has equal access to mental enhancement technologies.

4. Prevention of algorithmic bias: Ensure that the algorithms of neurotechnologies do not create discrimination.

5. Individual autonomy: Defend people’s independence from external manipulation by neurotechnologies.

Violante also proposes two key prohibitions:

1. Interference without consent: prohibiting the reading, dissemination or alteration of mental states without the explicit consent of the individual.

2. Unauthorized manipulation of neural capacities: Preventing interventions that may cause direct damage to people’s brain functions.

This reflection is part of a broader context of building a " digital civilization" centered on human dignity and awareness of technological challenges.

Violante urges a critical examination to avoid the marginalization of the human being in favor of a post-human vision and stresses the importance of technological progress that promotes the development of individuals and communities.