Neurowearables are becoming increasingly common, but the ethical frameworks surrounding these technologies have not kept up with their development. Researchers at Columbia University have created the NeuroRights Initiative to protect 5 fundamental NeuroRights:

Mental Privacy, Personal Identity, Free Will, Equal Access to Mental Augmentation and Protection Against Algorithmic Bias.

Artist Roel Heremans designed 5 philosophical videogames on 5 arcade machines in response to make the need for these NeuroRights more tangible and inspire a deeper understanding of their importance.

When playing the games, the players are wearing a brain-computer headphone while they explore questions about the future of our NeuroRights in a world where Brain-Computer-Interfaces will be everywhere.

After completion, the visitor gets offered a QR-code downloadable digital print of their recorded brainwaves.

Just when they might think they've been ethically empowered, they could get the uncanny realization that the installation has done exactly what it warned them about…