Chile could become the first country to have a law that protects neuro-rights

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The Senate's Future Challenges Commission presented two Bills that seek to protect people's privacy against artificial intelligence.

Protect the mentally privacy, the privacy and the right to individual identity of men and women to the advancement of artificial intelligence. This is the objective of two bills that were presented today in a teleconference in which national and foreign authorities and specialists participated.

It is that in recent years, neurotechnologies have experienced accelerated advance that brings benefits and complexities. It is for this reason that scientists, experts and thinkers have been reflecting on ethical limits and raising the need to recognize and protect a new type of rights: the “neuro-rights”.

Through an international teleconference, the first two legislative initiatives in the world were presented, which will enter the Chilean Senate and establish ethical limits that protect the autonomy and free will of the brain of each of the inhabitants of the planet.

The president of the Senate, Adriana Muñoz, explained that “it is proposed to promote the recognition and protection of neuro-rights, through a constitutional reform project and a bill (…) that protect mental privacy, intimacy and the right to the individual identity of men and women in the face of the significant and promising, but also disturbing, advance of artificial intelligence ”.

Present at the activity were Senator Guido Girardi , president of the Senate's Future Challenges Commission, and Spanish neuroscientist Rafael Yuste , coordinator of the BRAIN project that seeks to decipher the wiring of the human brain, are the main drivers of this work