The Washington Foreign Law Society in collaboration with the Stimson Center and
Harvard’s Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights
have the pleasure to invite you to a webinar:
AI and International Law Series (Part VI)
Neurotechnologies, AI, and the Right to Mental Privacy: Can the Law Save us from Losing our Minds?
Thursday, February 19 2026
From 12:00 to 1:00 PM ET
What if AI could power devices to read our thoughts? It's no longer science fiction. Neurotechnologies, which refers to devices capable of recording, decoding, or altering brain activity, can already treat certain serious brain diseases with implantable devices and can already decode thought in the form of words to text at 85 words a minute with 95 percent accuracy. Beyond medical settings, consumer neurotechnologies such as brain-training kits for meditation and sleep already provide unprecedented access to our highly-sensitive and revealing neural data. These advances presage the development of technologies with the potential to surveil our minds, as recent experiments in China, Australia, and elsewhere demonstrate. Using AI to decode brain scans, extract information, and even alter our consciousness present us with a new world of ethical challenges, from State brain surveillance of dissidents to personal augmentation of mental capacity. Can law and policy protect our neurorights to mental integrity, agency and privacy?
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This webinar is jointly organized with the Stimson Center and the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights at Harvard Kennedy School
Panelist: Jared Genser (Managing Director of Perseus Strategies)
Moderator: Giulia Neaher, (Research Analyst at the Stimson Center)
Introduction by: Alexandra Bochnakova, President of the WFLS
Jared Genser. Jared Genser is an international human rights lawyer for more than two decades. He is Managing Director of Perseus Strategies, outside General Counsel to the Neurorights Foundation, and a member of the Advisory Board to the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights at Harvard University, where he was previously a Senior Tech Fellow. He is also a member of the Expert Advisory Group to the INTERPOL-UNODC Joint Project on the Use of Neurotechnologies in Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice. Genser was previously a partner in the government affairs practice of DLA Piper LLP. He is co-editor with former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein of The Oxford Handbook on the UN Human Rights System (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming 2026).
Giulia Neaher. Giulia Neaher is a Research Analyst with the Strategic Foresight Hub at the Stimson Center, where she leads projects on AI policy and the sociopolitical impacts of emerging technologies. Her research spans responsible AI efforts in the Global South, ethical AI governance, open-source software security, and technical standards for AI and related technologies. Prior to joining Stimson, Giulia served as Assistant Director at the Atlantic Council’s GeoTech Center, where she led programming and authored research on responsible AI, tech standards, and the geopolitical elements of technology. She also worked as a Research Associate at the Center for AI & Digital Policy, tracking U.S. AI policy developments and conducting advocacy for responsible AI. Earlier in her career, she worked on Latin America policy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Dentons Global Advisors. Giulia graduated with a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, where she was a Public Service Fellow, and holds a B.A. in international relations and economics from Washington University in St. Louis. She is fluent in Italian and Spanish.
Alexandra Bochnakova. Alexandra is the President of the Washington Foreign Law Society. She is an international lawyer educated and licensed in France and in the United States. She is currently working as Corporate and International Counsel at the Office of General Counsel at Finca Impact Finance, Washington DC, a microfinance institution with over 15 subsidiaries in emerging nations. Previously, she was Head of Corporate Affairs and Corporate Secretary of the Board of Directors of the holding, at Pierre Fabre Group, France, working on corporate and regulatory matters with nearly one hundred companies of the Group in France and worldwide. Prior to that, and for over 12 years, she was the founding partner of SELAS Bochnakova, a boutique law firm focused on international law and cross-border matters. In parallel, she was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toulouse 1 Capitole and ESICAD Business School in Toulouse, France.
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