Brain-Computer Interface: implications of brain reading in the legal field

The legal challenges of using Brain Reading

Abstract

The article aims to investigate the implications and applications that neural interfaces (Brain-Computer Interface, BCI) and, in particular, brain reading operations may have in the legal field. These neurotechnologies combined with artificial intelligence are the subject of numerous experimental studies that envisage their use outside the clinical setting, theoretically protected by deontological rules, to explore the connections between brain activity, consciousness and identity. Access to the brain opens the way to the mind, posing exciting questions in the legal sphere because of the possible involvement of fundamental constructs such as free will, psychic integrity and confidentiality.