Continuing our series on the intersection of sci-fi and national security, host Elisa is joined by Sunita Patel, Senior Assistant General Counsel for Product Security at Micron. Together they unpack the 1990's film, Total Recall, exploring themes of memory, identity, and reality. What can sci-fi tales like Total Recall teach us about real "brain-computer" projects like Neuralink ? And how could technologies like Neuralink impact society in the future, to include on topics of national security, medical care, cybersecurity policymaking, and privacy?

Sunita Patel is the Senior Assistant General Counsel for Product Security at Micron

References:

Verhoeven, Paul. Total Recall. TriStar Pictures, 1990

We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, by Philip K. Dick

"Driving U.S. Innovation in Artificial Intelligence: A Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence Policy in the United States Senate." The Bipartisan Senate AI Working Group

“AI Governance Needs Sociotechnical Expertise.” Data & Society. 15 May 2024

Markoff, John. “Elon Musk’s Neuralink Wants ‘sewing Machine-like’ Robots to Wire Brains to the Internet.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 17 July 2019

H.R. 4346, Chips and Science Act

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

S. 2103, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024