Inferring Mental States from Brain Data: Ethico‐legal Questions about Social Uses of Brain Data

Neurotechnologies that collect and interpret data about brain activity are already in use for medical and nonmedical applications. Refinements of existing noninvasive techniques and the discovery of new ones will likely encourage broader uptake. The increased collection and use of brain data and, in...

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Published in:The Hastings Center report Vol. 55; no. 1; pp. 22 - 32
Main Author: Chandler, Jennifer A.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.01.2025
John Wiley and Sons Inc
Subjects:
Artificial intelligence
Bioethics
Brain
Brain - physiology
Brain activity
brain‐computer technologies
brain‐data privacy
Data
Data analysis
Decision making
Ethics
human rights
Humans
Inference
mental privacy
Mental states
neuroethics
neurorights
Neuroscience & Society
Neurosciences
neurotechnology
Privacy
Privacy - legislation & jurisprudence
Reliability
Uptake
neuroethics
neurotechnology
human rights
brain‐data privacy
neurorights
brain‐computer technologies
mental privacy
ISSN:0093-0334, 1552-146X, 1552-146X
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Summary:Neurotechnologies that collect and interpret data about brain activity are already in use for medical and nonmedical applications. Refinements of existing noninvasive techniques and the discovery of new ones will likely encourage broader uptake. The increased collection and use of brain data and, in particular, their use to infer the existence of mental states have led to questions about whether mental privacy may be threatened. It may be threatened if the brain data actually support inferences about the mind or if decisions are made about a person in the belief that the inferences are justified. This article considers the chain of inferences lying between data about neural activity and a particular mental state as well as the ethico‐legal issues raised by making these inferences, focusing here on what the threshold of reliability should be for using brain data to infer mental states.
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ISSN:0093-0334
1552-146X
1552-146X
DOI:10.1002/hast.4958