Conor Russomanno

Nita Farahani, a legal scholar and AI ethicist, dives into the ethical challenges of merging our minds with machines. Conor Russomanno, a neurotechnologist and founder of OpenBCI, discusses groundbreaking brain-computer interfaces. Sergiu Pașca, a neuroscientist at Stanford, sheds light on using brain organoids to tackle neuropsychiatric disorders. They explore trauma treatment through innovative neurotechnology, the vital need for mind privacy laws, and the transformative potential of these advancements in enhancing mental well-being.

Legal scholar Nita Farahany shares a heartbreaking experience, and guests explore topics such as rewriting traumatic memories, protecting privacy in the era of neurotechnology, the erosion of cognitive liberty, building a new type of personal computer, brain hacks and brain organoids, and living with epilepsy.

Conor Russomanno, co-founder and CEO of OpenBCI who builds open-source tools to democratize brain–computer interfaces. He recalls the DIY EEG moment that launched OpenBCI. Conversations cover noninvasive vs invasive BCIs, combining EEG with eye, heart, and muscle data, multimodal personalized decoding, practical repurposing of muscles for control, and balancing neurotech hype with realism.