Neurotechnologies, AI, and the Right to Mental Privacy: Can the Law Save us from Losing our Minds?

Thursday, February 19, 2026
12:00 PM 1:00 PM. The Washington Foreign Law Society in collaboration with the Stimson Center and

Harvard’s Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights

have the pleasure to invite you to a webinar:

AI and International Law Series (Part VI)

Neurotechnologies, AI, and the Right to Mental Privacy: Can the Law Save us from Losing our Minds?

Thursday, February 19 2026
From 12:00 to 1:00 PM ET

What if AI could power devices to read our thoughts? It’s no longer science fiction. Neurotechnologies, which refers to devices capable of recording, decoding, or altering brain activity, can already treat certain serious brain diseases with implantable devices and can already decode thought in the form of words to text at 85 words a minute with 95 percent accuracy. Beyond medical settings, consumer neurotechnologies such as brain-training kits for meditation and sleep already provide unprecedented access to our highly-sensitive and revealing neural data. These advances presage the development of technologies with the potential to surveil our minds, as recent experiments in China, Australia, and elsewhere demonstrate. Using AI to decode brain scans, extract information, and even alter our consciousness present us with a new world of ethical challenges, from State brain surveillance of dissidents to personal augmentation of mental capacity. Can law and policy protect our neurorights to mental integrity, agency and privacy?

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