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In this video, the speaker discusses the use of brainwave technology in various aspects of life. They mention how brainwave activity can be monitored using wearable devices, like EarPods, to determine a person's attention and focus. The speaker also talks about the potential of combining brainwave activity with other surveillance technologies to gain more precise insights. They highlight the positive applications of this technology, such as using haptic scarves to help people refocus their attention. The speaker concludes by suggesting that there is a pathway forward with brainwave technology and encourages embracing its potential.
Speaker 0: First off, a video, it's going to make you see the future and understand a wonderful future where we can use brainwaves to fight crime, be more productive, and find love. Let's roll.
Speaker 1: Sensing your joy, your playlist shifts to your favorite song, Sending chills up your spine as the music begins to play. You glance at the program running in the background on your computer screen and notice a now familiar sight that appears whenever you're overloaded with pleasure, your theta brainwave activity decreasing in the temporal regions of your brain. You mentally move the cursor to the left and scroll through your brain data over the past few hours. You can see your stress levels rising as the deadline to finish your memo approached, causing a peak in your beta brainwave activity right before an alert popped up telling you to take a brain break. Your mind starts to wander to the new colleague on your team Whom you know you shouldn't be daydreaming about given the policy against intra office romance, but you can't help fantasizing just a little.
But then you start to worry that your boss will notice your amorous feelings when she checks your brain activity and shift your attention back to the present. You breathe a sigh of relief when the email she sends you later that day congratulates you on your BRAIN metrics from the past quarter, Which have earned you another performance bonus. When you arrive at work the next day, a somber cloud has fallen over the office. Along with emails, text messages and GPS location data. The government has subpoenaed employees' Brainwave data from the past year.
They have compelling evidence that one of your coworkers has committed massive wire fraud. Now they're looking for his coconspirators. You discover they are looking for synchronized brain activity between your coworker and the people he has been working with. While you know you're innocent of any crime, you've been secretly working with him on a new start up venture. Shaking, you remove your earbuds.
Speaker 2: What do you think? Is it a future you're ready for? You may be surprised to learn That it's a future that has already arrived. Everything in that video that you just saw is based on technology that is already here today. Artificial intelligence has enabled advances in decoding brain activity in ways that we never before thought possible.
After all, what you think, What you feel, it's all just data, data that in large patterns can be decoded using artificial intelligence. We're not talking about implanted devices of the future. I'm talking about wearable devices that are like Fitbits for your brain. The newest way to monitor attention is through a device like this one. These are EarPods that are launching later this year.
These EarPods, much like the video you watched earlier, are EarPods that can pick up brainwave activity and tell whether or not a person is paying attention Or their mind is wandering. Okay. Well, you might think, fine. But even if we can tell whether a person is paying Paying attention where their mind is wandering, but you can discriminate between the kinds of things that they're paying attention to, whether they're doing something like Central tasks like programming, peripheral tasks like writing documentation or unrelated tasks Like surfing social media or online browsing. When you combine brainwave activity together with other forms of software and surveillance technology, The power becomes quite precise.
So what do we do with this? What do we do with technology that enables us To monitor brainwave activity for attention. Do we embrace it? Do we resist it? I believe that there is a pathway forward with such Technology.
We might soon even use the technology to help people wake back up. This is a haptic scarf that MIT Media Lab has developed, Which uses brainwave technology in a responsive way to give a person a little buzz, literally, When their mind starts to wander to help them refocus and hone their attention. I'm giving you the positive use cases because what I don't want the reaction to be is let's
