Proposal for the Law of the Computational Mind

Mitigating the Effects of Future Biowarfare such as COVID-19 by Employing Mind Reading AI (MR-AI) and Touch-less Economy (TE) - Proposal for the Law of the Computational Mind.

For years, many have warned that hostile states and/or terrorists could launch a biological attack against the rest of the world that remains woefully underprepared. The struggle to deal with the spread of the highly infectious new virus COVID-19 is the most recent example of how biological attacks will challenge our perception.

Biological attacks are a global concern and are widely associated with increasing agitation among those affected by the need of social isolation; civilian populations. Social isolation caused by virus COVID-19 describes the absence of social contact. It is a state of being cut off from normal social networks. Isolation involves staying at safe places (e.g.: homes) for lengthy periods, having no access to services or community involvement. The unthinkable has already become reality and every worst-case scenario in the world of biological attacks is now a possibility to artificial intelligence (AI) experts and law/policy creators, such as myself, working to assess the threat and response solutions. (See for example: https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Dependent-Person- Evolutionary/ dp/1680534785) Promoting efforts to design sufficient practices on using technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI):

1. ’(...) to provide data analysis of and/or real-time COVID-19 information to health care workers;

2. to mitigate the effects of social isolation, and sing automated systems to inform citizens about the status of the outbreak locally;

3. and to provide best practices on mitigating cybersecurity risks while small businesses are shut (...)' is a must for today's tech-enabled world. This project's focus is on presenting an overview of the nature and scope of the challenges posed by biowarfare such as COVID-19, and offering ways to meet issues listed above.

It is argued here that modern technology such as Mind Reading AI (MR-AI) and Touch-less Economy (TE) might address challenges caused by biological weapons and/or bioterrorism. MR-AI is a type of AI that uses electrodes implanted in the temporal lobes of a human brain and can decode brain signals at nearly the speed of perception. TE, on the other hand, comprises the economic activities that remain possible without close physical interaction between people: the online banking, shopping, meetings, the drop-off delivery of goods, etc.. As it stands, human brain and TE might be pretty much all the economy people will have in times of biowarfare when all services are deliberately shut down. Thus the most obvious application of MR-AI would be superior technology control to

(a) 'provide best practices on mitigating cybersecurity risks while small businesses are shut (...)',

(b) 'provide data analysis of and/or real-time [virus ]information to health care workers (...)'

(c) 'to mitigate the effects of social isolation; and sing automated systems to inform citizens about the status of the outbreak locally (...)'. Of uses beyond that, no one can be specific. Brain commands to smart speakers? Brain-to-brain communication? Brain commands to online banking, medical services, shopping, the drop-off delivery of goods, etc.

As the COVID-19 outbreak has demonstrated, the possibilities for a biological Armageddon go beyond what was initially envisioned — so there needs to be an attendant increase in what goes into ways of answering the challenge. We already use devices like smartphones, earsets, etc. hence an on-invasive brain-computer interface which does not involve brain surgery not only seem attractive, but having in mind that the unthinkable became reality, and as a result, every worst-case scenario suddenly became a possibility, people might become more keen to rely on technology which evidently could mitigate the effects of future biowarfare such as COVID-19.

OUTPUT - Law of the Computational Mind The rise of biowarfare and/or biological terrorism is putting humans at risk. We need to be able to rise to the challenges that both biowarfare and technology in this ever changing world might throw our way. In the era of neurocapitalism and biowarfare, our brain needs new rights. Human brain, the final privacy frontier, may not be private much longer, especially during the time of Armageddon. If we are going to employ MR-AI in times of disasters we need revamped human rights laws — a new jurisprudence of the mind — to protect us. The technologies have the potential to interfere with rights that are so basic that we may not even think of them as rights, like our ability to determine where our selves end and machines begin. Our current laws are not equipped to address this.

This project solution is to understand the advantages and disadvantages related to the use of MR-AI during the time of biowarfare, and draft a Law of the Computational Mind.