Nita Farahany

Is America Really at War Over AI? Trump's executive order reveals how this administration thinks about AI

This is smart, & timely. @nitafarahany.bsky.social on whether the US is really "at war" (w/China) over AI & why the framing may matter. Trump signed an Executive Order on Monday calling his AI project “comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project.”
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A sports device to ‘protect the brain’ illustrates a major problem with the FDA de novo pathway “This is not just about one device. It’s about what happens when institutions grow comfortable living in their own ambiguity and hiding behind opacity.”

ICYMI, good @statnews.com piece on FDA de novo authorization of the Q collar as a sports concussion prevention & how it misleads people. And, bigger than one device, how softening FDA "approvals," "authorizations," and "clearances" is bad. www.statnews.com/2025/11/02/q...

U.S. AI Policy Myths and Realities (Inside my AI Law and Policy Class #22) The Three Pillars and Their Execution

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Man’s pig kidney fails just shy of setting record The xenotransplant, from a gene-edited pig, had survived for nearly 9 months in Tim Andrews

Pig kidney removed after 9 working mo www.science.org/content/arti...
BUT I never knew about a 61 yr old record!
"The xenotransplant record Andrews had been about to pass belonged to Edyth Parker, a 23-yr-old Louisiana school teacher. On 13 January 1964, Parker received a transplant of a chimpanzee

When AI Learns to Manipulate: The Line Between Harm and Exploitation (Class #15) Understanding AI Manipulation

Mirror mirror on the wall. What happens when Ai manipulates us all?

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When Anyone Can Fake Anything (Inside My AI Law & Policy Class #14) Deepfake Technology and the Post-Truth World

Take a free (virtual) seat in @nitafarahany.bsky.social's Duke Law class. This week, "When Anyone Can Fake Anything" the state of #deepfakes, their harms, and the difficulty detecting them. nitafarahany.substack.com/p/when-anyon...

#AI #DukeLaw #PostTruth #TechEthics #TechPolicy

Red-Teaming Governance: From Practice to Law (Class XIII) When the NYT Became a “Hacker”

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At #FreeSpeechSummit2025, @nitafarahany.bsky.social discusses our cognitive liberty in the digital age.

When AI Fails, Who Pays? (Inside my AI Law and Policy Class #11) The Bromide Poisoning and the Liability Puzzle

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Nita Farahany: Your right to mental privacy in the age of brain-sensing tech Neurotechnology, or devices that let you track your own brain activity, could help you deeply understand your health. But without privacy protections, your innermost thoughts, emotions and desires cou...

The possibilities but also the risks of #neurotechnology in this #TEDtalk 'Your right to mental privacy in the age of brain-sensing tech' (www.ted.com/talks/nita_f...) by @nitafarahany.bsky.social #neurotech #BrainSensing #privacy #neuroethics #neurorights

Training Data, Discovery Wars, and Who Gets Paid (Inside my AI Law & Policy Class #6) When Courts Meet Code

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Inside My AI Law & Policy Class (Class #1) Every Monday & Wednesday this fall, I’m opening my classroom doors. Consider yourself enrolled.

If you're working to get ahead of the AI-curve in order to try to shape our collective future, @nitafarahany.bsky.social is must-read.

TL;DR
- AI definitions and how to think about them
- AI ethical issues I'd not thought about
- Creativity
- How to write better

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Sam Altman wants to merge your brain with artificial intelligence.

@nitafarahany.bsky.social breaks down the risks of brain-computer interfaces and what the technology could mean for the future of AI.

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Nita Farahany (@nitafarahany) I’ve decided to “open the doors” to my AI law and policy class this fall. Why? Because we need an easy way for people to level up on an area that impacts all of our lives. Share this widely!

I’ve decided to “open the doors” to my AI law and policy class this fall. Why? Because we need an easy way for people to level up on an area that impacts all of our lives.

How do you join? Easy, just subscribe. Then you're in!

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The Tech Titans Are Coming for Your Brain And why the White House might let them

The Tech Titans Are Coming for Your Brain
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Apple’s Neural Platform Play: What BCI-HID Actually Is—and Why It Could Quietly Standardize Neurotech How to win the brain-computer interface race without launching a brain-computer interface

Apple’s Neural Platform Play: What BCI-HID Actually Is—and Why It Could Quietly Standardize #Neurotech. How to win the brain-computer interface race without launching a brain-computer interface. @nitafarahany.bsky.social on Substack

4-minute listen: Brain implants that decode a person's inner voice may threaten #privacy. www.npr.org/transcripts/... @npr.org @nitafarahany.bsky.social

Stanford Scientists Decode Inner Speech with 26-54% Accuracy A Breakthrough for Paralysis and a Challenge for Mental Privacy

Very cool to see researchers directly engage with issues of mental privacy to enable responsible innovation in neurotechnology.
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The Neurotech Inflection Point 7 Patterns Reshaping Brain-Computer Interfaces

The Neurotech Inflection Point
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Are you following neural data laws? Have you considered the unintended consequences? nitafarahany.substack.com/p/your-medit...

Neurotech can monitor health and read thoughts. But what about mental privacy? Developing neurotech can transform how we monitor and improve our well-being. But lawyer and AI ethicist Nita Farahany warns this tech can supercharge data tracking and infringe on our mental privacy.

#Neurotech 🧠 can now track your health—and your thoughts. As brain-computer interfaces go mainstream, experts warn we're entering a new era of mental privacy. What laws protect your mind? S&S founding Director @nitafarahany.bsky.social explores the issue on @npr.org :

Trump's Executive Order Targeting "Woke AI" How scientists learned to read artificial minds, and the White House threatened to lobotomize them

Trump's Executive Order Targeting "Woke AI"
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Your AI Will See You Now AI is 4x more accurate than human doctors, but patients aren't reaping the benefits

Who do you trust with your medical care?

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Outsourcing Thought - with Nicholas Thompson and Nita Farahany Podcast Episode · The Most Interesting Thing in A.I. · 05/28/2025 · 43m

Unintended consequences of #AI are now being studied and quantified.

This podcast featuring @nitafarahany.bsky.social is chilling: AI is reshaping not just what we think but how we think.

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Looking forward to a thought-provoking session today at @isscr.org in Hong Kong—discussing emerging ethical questions around neural #organoids, #assembloids, and their transplantation. Join us at 2 PM in Hall 3G.

When AI Refuses to Die Congress must decide whether to look the other way

It's not just about whether we regulate #AI or not. But whether we will even have the moral standing to do so.

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When AI Refuses to Die Congress must decide whether to look the other way

When AI Refuses to Die
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Provost Launches AI Initiative and Steering Committee | Duke Today

#DukeU Provost Alec D. Gallimore launches #AI initiative and steering committee, naming S&S Director @nitafarahany.bsky.social as faculty chair of trustworthy and responsible AI today.duke.edu/2025/05/prov... #AIethics

🧠 What if the fight for human rights starts in your own mind?

This week’s @legallyspeakingpod.bsky.social, sponsored by @goclio.bsky.social, I spoke with @nitafarahany.bsky.social on neurotech, AI & mental privacy.

Your brain data is up for grabs.

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🧠 What if your thoughts were no longer private?

Neurotech isn’t sci-fi—it’s now.

Next on @legallyspeakingpod.bsky.social
™️, sponsored by @goclio.bsky.social, I speak with Professor @nitafarahany.bsky.social
on why cognitive liberty may be the next human right.

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