A technique called ‘mind captioning’ described in a scientific paper published on November 5, 2025 generates descriptive sentences of what a person is seeing or picturing in their mind using scans of their brain activity. It is based 1) on artificial intelligence models trained on the text captions of thousands of videos,0 and 2) brain scans of people watching them. The technique could help those with language difficulties to communicate better… But it raises concerns of mental privacy…

Excerpt from Max Kozlov, Mind-captioning’ AI decodes brain activity to turn thoughts into text, Nature, Nov. 5, 2025