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The Right to Mental Privacy: How AI Can Read You Like a Book

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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

ChatGPT as a Confessor

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ChatGPT users are unloading personal thoughts and feelings to the chatbot in detailed terms. So much so that Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, has been warning that they shouldn’t expect the same sorts of privacy protections that come with intimate conversations with psychologists or lawyers. 

“People talk about the most personal s— in their lives to ChatGPT,” Altman said during a podcast appearance in July 2025. “If you go talk to ChatGPT about your most sensitive stuff and then there’s like a lawsuit or whatever, like we could be required to produce that and I think that’s very screwed up. I think we should have like the same concept of privacy for your conversations with AI that we do with a therapist or whatever.”

Excerpt from Tim Higgins, Why Apple’s Tim Cook Is the Odd Man Out in the AI Race, WSJ, Aug. 2025