(Jan) Christoph Bublitz
Legal Scholar @UHH
Law & Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience
Human right to freedom of thought
PI of projects on neurotech, psychedelics & Virtual Reality
I use this space for posting papers and digital note taking
www.christophbublitz.de
- Reposted by (Jan) Christoph BublitzWe preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act for its addictive design. Our investigation suggests that the platform did not properly consider how these addictive features could harm the physical and mental wellbeing of its users, including children and vulnerable adults. ↓
- Keynote by the Spanish Prime Minister about "5 measures to turn social media healthy" yesterday: Announcing that Spain will introduce new criminal offences next week, holding exceutives accountable for amplifying or not-taking down illegitimate content. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcX
- Reposted by (Jan) Christoph BublitzThe 21st century version of William Gibson’s “meat puppet” has arrived: rentahuman.ai
- "The cases that should exist" - great take on AI and the law with a Dworkinian twist (and yes, probably LLMs don't work that way).
- Reposted by (Jan) Christoph BublitzWe are pleased to announce the winner of The Charles Mills Prize "Who Counts in Official Statistics? Ethical-Epistemic Issues in German Migration & the Collection of Racial or Ethnic Data” Daniel James, Morgan Thompson & Tereza Hendl #philsky Read it here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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- Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. Here is a moving documentary from 1969 about a survivor, and his experimental psychiatric treatment with LSD in the Netherlands. Now Do You Get It Why I'm Crying? by Louis van Gasteren. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq4R...
- Berlin: 28.1. Trip auf Rezept? Zur Zukunft Psychedelika-assistierter Therapie. Öffentliche Veranstaltung unseres Forschungsprojekts PSYCHEDELSI zu allerlei, auch nicht-medizinischen Themen. psychedelsi.org 18 Uhr, Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité. Come along!
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- I guess this does lead to a shift in the hermeneutical horizon of medical and neuro ethics... www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
- Berlin: Morgen spricht der israel. Psychiater Roy Salomon über Traumaerfahrungen unter Psychedelika durch das Massaker am 07. Oktober auf dem Nova Festival. Um 16:00 an der Charité Mitte, Nervenklinik,Saal 24 salomonlab.org/video/
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- Reposted by (Jan) Christoph BublitzI guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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- Given the ongoing debates about social media regulation, allow me to do as the big guys and briefly steal your attention to point to my new paper on the human right to freedom of thought, operationalized for digital technologies, especially social media. It makes two central points.
- Reposted by (Jan) Christoph BublitzUK IVF couples use legal loophole to rank embryos based on potential IQ, height and health www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- Zur UNESCO Empfehlung zur Ethik der Neurotechnologie findet gleich eine Veranstaltung der Deutschen UNESCO Kommisison statt, mit Impulsvortrag von mir. Bei Interesse: www.unesco.de/aktuelles/di...
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- Ein paar Sätze hier: background.tagesspiegel.de/digitalisier...
- Ein Satz zur UNESCO-Empfehlung zu Neurotech Forschung aktuell | Schutz von Gehirndaten: UNESCO-Empfehlung zur Ethik der Neurotechnologie share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothe...
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- Letzten Montag bei der DFG: www.deutschlandfunk.de/neurotechnol...
- interesting study calling the effectivess of personalized advertisement in question
- 💭 New paper on the ethics of changing minds through psychedelics, and some implications for psychedelic psychotherapy. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- 🧠 New paper: “A Moratorium on Implantable Non-Medical Neurotech” As Neuralink, Synchron, and possibly soon MergeLab funded by OpenAI push the frontier, we ask: are we ready for Brain-Computer Interfaces outside medicine? ➡️Our new paper says: not yet.
- 2/ We propose a moratorium on implantable non-med neurotechnologies until their effects on the human mind are properly understood. Specifically, devices should undergo a Mental Impact Assessment, a systematic evaluation of psychological and cognitive effects under realistic use conditions.
- Freedom of Thought: The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights has just published a policy report on freedom of thought, AI, and neurotechnology. I am honored to have contributed and like how it describes the right and applies it to social media.../ www.osce.org/odihr/597450
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- "Nur Gott darf Punkte setzen" - László Krasznahorkai www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/nur-gott-dar...
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- Freue mich, später im Deutschen Theater zu sprechen. Wer vorbeikommen möchte... www.deutschestheater.de/programm/pro...
- Just received my contributor's copy of the CUP handbook on Experimental Jurisprudence by @kevintobia.bsky.social, which may well beome the prime reference for anyone interested in the field, given the many interesting chapters and leading authors.
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[Not loaded yet] - Honored to give a keynote later at UOC Barcelona on human rights and neurotechnology. Interview with me here: www.uoc.edu/en/news/2025...
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- New Viewpoint: Countries allowing assisted suicide should offer candidates psychedelics and support to change their minds. If we truly value life, shouldn't we explore every therapeutic option - even controversial ones - before accepting that suffering is untreatable? ja.ma/4l2gdls
- 1/ UNESCO member states recently concluded negotiations on the first global Recommendation on the Ethics of Neurotechnology, to be adopted in November. Our comment in Nature Mental Health examines it through a disability rights lens. While people with disabilities are primary neurotechnology users..
