Artificial Intelligence, NeuroData, and Society: Law at the Edge of Cognition

This book explores how AI systems trained on neurodata are redrawing the boundaries of dignity, autonomy, and legal personhood. It reveals the emerging reality of NeuroAI: a world where machine-learning models anticipate our thoughts before we have even formed them.As neurotechnologies evolve, AI systems move beyond interpreting brain signals in labs and headsets to harvesting neurodata (whether extracted through direct interfaces, inferred from everyday behaviour, or reverse-engineered via predictive modelling) from users who never consented or even knew they were being monitored, transforming the subconscious into a commodified dataset. Drawing on case studies from criminal trials, law enforcement, and consumer technologies, the book reveals how Big Tech and platform operators increasingly treat neurodata as a resource for monetisation.Across the EU and the USA, emerging AI and data-protection regimes, including the EU AI Act and GDPR, as well as the US Fourth Amendment and HIPAA fra