Join Professor Ifeoma Ajunwa for a fireside chat with Professor Nita Farahany as they discuss Professor Farahany’s new book, “The Battle for Your Brain: Defending Your Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology.” The Program for Public Discourse is co-sponsoring this event with the Artificial Intelligence Decision-Making Research (AI-DR) Program.

March 21, 2023 from 12 – 1 pm in Room 5042 at UNC School of Law (Van Hecke-Wettach Hall)

Lunch will be served so please RSVP to ensure an accurate head count.

For those who can’t attend in person, a Zoom webinar link will be sent at the time of registration.

Nita Farahany, author of The Battle for Your Brain: Defending Your Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology(St. Martin’s Press 2023), is the Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law & PhilosophyandFounding Director of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society. She is a widely published scholar on the ethics of emerging technologiesand frequent commentator for nationalmedia and radioand keynote speaker at eventsincluding TED, the Aspen Ideas Festival, the World Economic Forum, and judicial conferencesworldwide.From 2010-2017, she served as a Commissioner on the U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study ofBioethical Issues. She currently serves on the National Advisory Councilfor the National Institute for Neurological Disease and Stroke, as an elected member of the American Law Institute, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, immediate past President of the International Neuroethics Society, ELSI advisor to the NIH Brain Initiativeand to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, member of the Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disordersand the Standing Committee on Biotechnology Capabilities and NationalSecurity Needsfor the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the Global Future Council on Frontier Risksfor the World Economic Forum. She is the Reporter for the Drafting Committee on updating the Uniform Determination of Death Committeefor the Uniform Law Commission(ULC), as well as a ULC Commissioner. Farahany is a co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law and the Biosciencesand on theBoard of AdvisorsforScientific American. She also serves on scientific and ethics advisory boards for corporations. Farahany holds an AB (Genetics) from Dartmouth College, an ALM (Biology) from HarvardUniversity, and a JD, MA, and Ph.D. (Philosophy) fromDuke University.

Dr. Ifeoma Ajunwa, J.D., Ph.D., is an award-winning tenured law professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law where she is the Founding Director of the Artificial Intelligence Decision-Making Research (AI-DR) Program at UNC Law. She is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University since 2017 and a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School (2022-2023). She was a 2019 recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and a 2018 recipient of the Derrick A. Bell Award from the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). Professor Ajunwa's book, The Quantified Worker, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in April 2023.