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I always read these with scepticism. Either there is some mind-boggling stuff going on in labs that is way way beyond any kind of 'artificial intelligence' we

I always read these with scepticism. Either there is some mind-boggling stuff going on in labs that is way way beyond any kind of 'artificial intelligence' we get to experience in our own lives... or a lot of these experiments are being hyped well beyond what they're actually capable of --in pursuit of funding. As regards the dangers of mind-reading computers in the future. I'm sure we've all read the SciFi memes and know that only stupid people will have their crimes uncovered by the police's computer's probing their memories. The rest of us smart cookies will be able to put up the mental shutters "I must think of a brick wall! I must think of a brick wall!" ...maybe with an aesthetic bead of sweat forming on our foreheads. So the pigs will just have to fall back on the rubber truncheons, after all.

Comevius 4y ago
Future-wise I don't think individuals would stand a chance against a sufficiently advanced AI technology. People are not a black box or particularly unique. An AI might be able to detect certain thoughts from our faces, movement or smell, let alone our brains. In-use database encryption today is trivially defeated (which is why it is not used) not by compromising the encryption, but by establishing patterns and detecting them. It's particularly hard to create black boxes out of active systems. Even in-transit encryption like HTTPS or Wi-Fi is not trivially safe because of these side channels. A person compared to that is an open book if you know what to look for.