Stanford neuroscientist Andrew Huberman says the real AI arms race is about controlling your brain
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Framing the AI race as a contest to read and alter the human brain is a reminder that attention, behavior, and neurodata are becoming contested infrastructure. Any team working on AI-driven engagement or biometrics should treat consent, data governance, and long-term reputational risk as first-order design constraints, not cleanup tasks.
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