Neurotechnocracy

Event Description

This research project critically evaluates that imagined promise, with special attention to the concern that technocratic managerialism will stifle democratic values under a paradigm we might call neuro-technocracy. A future in which law relies on proprietary, algorithmic, expert-mediated neuro-technologies poses especially vexing challenges to the values (e.g., transparency and accountability) that make public institutions public — and the prospect that private power may wield these same technologies is more troubling still. No level of technical sophistication will render legal neurotechnology safe for law and society as currently arranged; the task of developing a counterweight to neuro-technocracy is better understood as political in nature.

Light lunch will be served. For Zoom link and paper, Please contact sopuru10@student.ubc.ca.

Speaker

Reina R Nadler is a PhD candidate at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, where her studies have been supported by a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. A leader in the field of neuroethics, her primary research focus is at the intersection of neuroscience, neurotechnology, and the law. Her prior work can be found under her legal name, Roland Nadler.