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Neurotech and AI together threaten 'mental privacy', says Unesco

A humanoid robot at the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland, on 5 July 2023. © Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP

Unesco has warned that the combination of neurotechnology and artificial intelligence poses a threat to mental privacy, as it works on a new global charter on scientific ethics.

The UN's agency for science and culture has begun developing a global "ethical framework" to address human rights concerns posed by rapid scientific advances, it said at its International Conference on the Ethics of Neurotechnology in Paris on Thursday.

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