The future is here: Mind control and torture in the digital era.

Abstract

Torture, understood as a relationship of dom-ination in which one person breaks the will and impedes the self-determination of another human being, taking control of all aspects of the victims' life and trying to change the core elements of their identity to the perpetrator's interests (Pérez-Sales, 2017), will increasingly come to be linked to new technologies, arti-ficial intelligence, the use of media and inter-net, and to new forms of lethal and non-lethal weapons. The author reviews the implications of modern technology for the contemporary fight against torture and some of the emerging civil society initiatives that aim to face them.Keywords: Torture, Non-Lethal weapons, Neuro-warfare, Nanotechnologies,Mind control. Surveillance Methods, Neuro-ethics, Cognitive Liberty.