Unesco adopts global standards on ‘wild west’ field of neurotechnology

<p>UN body’s recommendations driven by AI advances and proliferation of consumer-oriented neurotech devices</p><p>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.</p><p>Unesco has <a href="https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000394866/PDF/394866eng.pdf.multi">adopted</a> a set of global standards on the ethics of neurotechnology, a field that has been described as “a bit of a wild west”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/06/unesco-adopts-global-standards-on-wild-west-field-of-neurotechnology">Continue reading...</a>