Unesco adopts global standards on ‘wild west’ field of neurotechnology
UN body’s recommendations driven by AI advances and proliferation of consumer-oriented neurotech devices
It is the latest move in a growing international effort to put guardrails around a burgeoning frontier – technologies that harness data from the brain and nervous system.
Unesco has adopted a set of global standards on the ethics of neurotechnology, a field that has been described as “a bit of a wild west”.