AI can "read minds" using MRI

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Researchers are developing “mind-reading” technology that can translate a person’s brainwaves into photographic images.

In an article published in Nature, researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands revealed the results from an experiment where they showed photos of faces to two volunteers inside a powerful brain-reading functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner.

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Top row is the image people were shown, the bottom image is a reconstruction of what people saw based on MRI scans.



There's a lot more at the LINK including an 11 minute interview with the researcher that gives a lot more detail.

TL;DR, what you see visually lights up the visual cortex in a specific way and they are able to translate that and reconstruct what you see.

They have to train the AI on you first, so it's not like they can pop you in an MRI and read your thoughts immediately, but if this technology progresses there are a ton of implications. From the video clip they were also able to do the same thing with monkeys and they provided surprisingly accurate results too.