As companies across the world pursue generative AI technology, new forms of manipulation become possible.

At the forefront of this are neurotechnologies, which directly connect to your brain and collect your brain data, and persuasive technologies, which can use that data to influence how you feel.

In countries like China where the tech industry is controlled by the government, the use of these technologies for disinformation and social control has already taken hold.

Today - senior analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies Daria Impiomabato on the rise of persuasive technologies, and the ways we could be exploited without even knowing.

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Guest: Senior analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies Daria Impiomabato

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