World Economic Forum Anticipates Technology to Spy on Your Brain Waves

February 5, 2023

At the latest annual World Economic Forum gathering in Davos, Switzerland, attendees saw a presentation of brain-wave monitoring technology which is said to allow employers to observe how hard employees are working. It can also be used to determine if workers are distracted, and even if they have feelings of attraction to one another.

“You can not only tell whether a person is paying attention or their mind is wandering, but you can discriminate between the kinds of things they are paying attention to,” the presenter said, as reported by Breitbart. “Whether they’re doing something like central tasks, like programming, peripheral tasks like writing documentation, or unrelated tasks like surfing social media or online browsing.”

He added that, “When you combine brain-wave activity together with other forms of software and surveillance technology, the power becomes quite precise.”

A brief video that was part of the presentation displayed a concept for the workplace of the future. In the future, an employee worries that her boss will detect “amorous feelings” she has for a co-worker, but is then relieved when she instead gets a bonus after “brain metrics” display her productivity.

Next, the video showed the government issuing a subpoena for employees’ brain-wave data in order to unearth co-conspirators in a wire-fraud plot taking place within the office.

“You discover they are looking for synchronized brain activity between your coworker and the people he has been working with. While you know you’re innocent of any crime, you’ve been secretly working with him on a new start-up venture. Shaking, you remove your earbuds,” the video narrated.

In addition, the presentation displayed various other uses of the technology, such as waking people up if they begin to fall asleep at work by means of an MIT-made haptic scarf that gives employees “a little buzz.”

According to the presenter, the point of the display was to demonstrate the “positive use cases” of brain-monitoring technology.

moar: https://thenewamerican.com/world-economic-forum-anticipates-technology-to-spy-on-your-brain-waves/