Rafael Yuste will discuss the crucial role that new neurotechnologies are playing in Neuroscience and how they can beneficially impact Medicine, Economy and Society of the future. But at the same time, these technologies, combined with AI, could be used to decipher and manipulate mental processes and to cognitively augment people by connecting them to brain-computer interfaces, altering what it means to be human. It will advocate for adding five new human rights (“Neurorights”) to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to ensure that this new technological revolution is channeled for the benefit of humanity.

Rafael Yuste is Director of the Center for Neurotechnology at Columbia University in New York. He studied Medicine at the Autonomous University of Madrid, worked with Brenner at Cambridge and received a doctorate in Neurobiology with Katz and Wiesel at the Rockefeller University. Yuste is interested in understanding how the cerebral cortex works and how it is damaged in diseases. He has won numerous awards, including the Eliasson for global leadership from the Tallberg Foundation. Yuste inspired the BRAIN initiative of the USA and the international BRAIN Initiative and is involved in the adoption of new human rights (the “NeuroRights”) for neurotechnology and artificial intelligence.

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