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Neuroscience and Big Data: Needs, Utility and Issues in National
Security, Intelligence and Defense
James Giordano, PhD Neuroethics Studies Program
and Department of Neurology
Georgetown University Medical Center Washington, DC, USA
Neuroscience… puts the brain at our fingertips
Progress in Neuroscience
Heuristic Reciprocity
Tools-to-Theory
Theory-to-Tools
Advances in Neuroscience
• Translationally viable
– Anatamo-physiological correlation
– Individual trajectories of expression
– Populational variation and pre-dispositional assessment
NeuroS/T for NSID
Assess- Access- Target
• Assessment Technologies
– Neuroimaging
– Neurophysiological recording
– Neurogenomics and genetics
– Neuroproteomics
– Neuro-cyber informatics
• Interventional Technologies – Cyber-linked neurocog manipulation
– Implantables and BMIs
Integrative Scientific Convergence (ISC) in Neuroscience
Conjoins: – Natural sciences – Biotechnology – Anthro/social science(s) Focus upon assessment, access and manipulation of
neural structure and cognitive, emotional and behavioral function(s):
-Individuals -Groups
RELIANT UPON DATA INTEGRATION, SHARING AND USE...
BIG DATA
Individual Data
Group-analytic Data
Genetics
Anatomy
Genomics
Social
Dynamics
Chemical
Biomarkers
Functional
Imaging
Behavior
NEURINT: Neuro-cognitive Intelligence
• Across domains
– Cellular-to-social
• Across levels
– Individual, cohorts, groups, populations
• Across geographic locales
– Complete geo-spatial access
• Across time
– Individual and historical timespans
• Across groups
– Comparatively and normatively
Caveats
• If it’s assessable, it’s accessible
• If it’s tagged, it’s targetable
• If it’s stackable, it’s hackable
• What’s hackable is manipulable
• What’s controllable is corruptible
Stackable-Hackable Issues
Tactical and Strategic Impact(s) Effects
– Proximate (Tactical) • Accessibility and use/misuse of data
– Intermediate (Tactical-Strategic) • Inappropriate data sharing • Data modification • Public life effect(s)
– Distal (Strategic) • Economic impacts • Social impacts • Net impact on “New Global“milieu
.
NeuroS/T Influence and Deterrence Scenarios
Access neural systems/brains to mitigate/control social violence…
and “protect the polis”
What we can do is provocative…
What we should do (and how we should do so) remains an issue.
Neuroethico-legal Issues
Technology-focal Unknowns of frontier science/technology Capabilities, limitations Runaway effects Ethico-legal Inviolability of “mind”/”self” Protection vs privacy Mitigation vs manipulation Validity, reliability, admissibility Norms, pluralization, diversity
Contact James Giordano PhD
Rm 238, Bldg D
To learn more, see:
www.neurobioethics.org