Allan McCay ORCID:orcid.org/0000-0003-2291-05261 AI & SOCIETY (2022) Curmudgeon Corner Published: 02 March 2022
"Towards the end of 2021, Chile became the first nation in the world to have a constitution in force that explicitly addresses the challenges of emerging neurotechnologies. Whilst this legislative response to technologies that draw on knowledge pertaining to neuroscience and artificial intelligence received some international media attention, it deserved more. The modification of the constitution might even be thought of as an important historic event given that emerging neurotechnologies have the potential to gather data from our brains, or even to manipulate them, thereby influencing what we think or do. Chile is the first country in the world to directly address the human rights challenges. The Chilean constitution as it now stands requires that technological development respect people’s physical and mental integrity and it states that the law must especially protect brain activity and information related to it." https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-022-01396-0
THE NEW CHILEAN CONSTITUTION AND THE BILL ON NEURO RIGHTS: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, REGULATION, AND IN THE METAVERSE
Chile has voted in favour of a new constitution. A new bill has also been passed which protects the neuro rights of the people. The main purpose of the law is to define mental identity for the first time in history as a non-manipulable right and to protect it against technological advancements in neurosciences and artificial intelligence. This article was written before the Bill was passed into law and discusses its societal changes.
