AI Decodes Thoughts From Brain Scans

🔥 What happened Researchers at the Weizmann Institute built a "Universal Brain Encoder" that reconstructs what someone is looking at from MRI scans alone. Trained on 9,000 images shown to subjects inside the scanner, it also works in reverse — predicting brain activity from images. 💡 Why it matters The decoder hits remarkable accuracy and could one day help locked-in patients communicate or let scientists visualize dreams. Neuroethicist Judy Illes calls it "great," but others warn: covert mind-reading just moved from sci-fi to plausible. ⚡ Our take 150 years of science fiction just became a research paper — and the ethics debate is, as usual, playing catch-up. Anyone collecting brain data needs bulletproof consent frameworks yesterday.