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I don’t think that it will ever be widely used the way you describe, just like the "Truth serum" sodium pentothal wasn’t outside of counter-intellgence agencies. I would also be surprised if that system worked well in an adversarial context: polygraph are another example of a technique that have proven a lot less effective than it’s nickname of "Lie detector" implies.

Sure, we can _imagine_ issues, but long before we can get to anything ominous, there are countless applications to give back to people with major health issues their mobility, their ability to communicate. For that, they would need to focus voluntarily, intensely on one specific activity for seconds — a miracle today, but a frustrating practice when it takes 30 seconds trying to tell your nurse that you need the pan. I feel like there’s a couple of years between that and anything Orwellian.

We’ll worry about AI being super-intelligent _after_ Amazon recommendation engine is still stuck on assuming that I’ve started a vacuum cleaner collection.