Sophisticated and deadly “brain weapons” that can attack or alter human consciousness, perception, memory or behaviour are no longer the stuff of science fiction, two British academics argue.
Michael Crowley and Malcolm Dando, of Bradford University, are about to publish a book that they believe should be a wake-up call to the world.
They are this weekend travelling to The Hague for a key meeting of states, arguing that the human mind is a new frontier in warfare and there needs to be urgent global action to prevent the weaponisation of neuroscience.
“It does sound like science fiction,” said Crowley. “The danger is that it becomes science fact.”
The book, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, explores how advances in neuroscience, pharmacology and artificial intelligence are coming together to create a new threat.
Social media isn’t that new
but, we know that propaganda exists, tired when they make up science fiction scenarios for things that already exist and are ignored.
Fuck, AI is one of the most powerful propaganda tools. way too many people rely on some AI to form their opinions, as long as they aren’t as obvious as Gork, their propaganda is incredibly powerful.
It’s all psychological warfare nowadays.
Veterans of the psych wars
Legalize the gay bomb
Then you’ve got American consulate employees in Cuba coming down with inexplicable brain problems.
Can’t the government just make us watch Tiktok instead?
Looks like new drugs that turn people to zombies.
