{"title":"The future is here: Mind control and torture in the digital era.","authors":"Pau Pérez-Sales","doi":"10.7146/torture.v32i1-2.132846","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Torture, understood as a relationship of dom-ination in which one person breaks the will and impedes the self-determination of another human being, taking control of all aspects of the victims' life and trying to change the core elements of their identity to the perpetrator's interests (Pérez-Sales, 2017), will increasingly come to be linked to new technologies, arti-ficial intelligence, the use of media and inter-net, and to new forms of lethal and non-lethal weapons. The author reviews the implications of modern technology for the contemporary fight against torture and some of the emerging civil society initiatives that aim to face them.Keywords: Torture, Non-Lethal weapons, Neuro-warfare, Nanotechnologies,Mind control. Surveillance Methods, Neuro-ethics, Cognitive Liberty.</p>","PeriodicalId":75230,"journal":{"name":"Torture : quarterly journal on rehabilitation of torture victims and prevention of torture","volume":"32 1,2","pages":"280-290"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Torture : quarterly journal on rehabilitation of torture victims and prevention of torture","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7146/torture.v32i1-2.132846","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Torture, understood as a relationship of dom-ination in which one person breaks the will and impedes the self-determination of another human being, taking control of all aspects of the victims' life and trying to change the core elements of their identity to the perpetrator's interests (Pérez-Sales, 2017), will increasingly come to be linked to new technologies, arti-ficial intelligence, the use of media and inter-net, and to new forms of lethal and non-lethal weapons. The author reviews the implications of modern technology for the contemporary fight against torture and some of the emerging civil society initiatives that aim to face them.Keywords: Torture, Non-Lethal weapons, Neuro-warfare, Nanotechnologies,Mind control. Surveillance Methods, Neuro-ethics, Cognitive Liberty.