Signal Reconstructing what a person is looking at from brain scans

Summary

This signal concerns research in which AI recreated images that people had been looking at, using data from MRI brain scans. The reconstructions reproduced what subjects saw with remarkable accuracy. Sitra cites a report from March 2023 on this work. The result suggests that visual experience can be partly decoded from brain activity. It raises new questions about the privacy of thought as neurotechnology advances. Sitra places it among signals behind an imagined future article on everyday neurotechnology, which also draws on signals about neurorights and freedom of thought.