{"id":31224,"date":"2025-11-10T06:41:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/?p=31224"},"modified":"2025-11-10T06:41:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:41:38","slug":"unesco-adopts-global-standards-on-neurotechnology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/2025\/11\/unesco-adopts-global-standards-on-neurotechnology\/","title":{"rendered":"Unesco Adopts Global Standards on Neurotechnology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

B2 – Upper Intermediate<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The field of neurotechnology often described as a bit of a “wild west\u201d for lack of regulations governing the said technology at present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chief of bioethics at UNESCO Dafna Feinholz said people have to be informed about neurotechnology’s potential benefits and risks, and the options they have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UNESCO has\u00a0adopted some guidelines governing the protection of our neural data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the article about UNESCO\u2019s set of global standards on the ethics of neurotechnology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/06\/unesco-adopts-global-standards-on-wild-west-field-of-neurotechnology<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. What does \u201cburgeoning<\/strong>\u201d mean? \u201cIt is the latest move in a growing international effort to put guardrails around a <\/em>burgeoning<\/em><\/strong> frontier \u2013 technologies that harness data from the brain and nervous system.\u201d<\/em> Use the word in a sentence. Give a synonym.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. What does \u201cwild west<\/strong>\u201d mean here: \u201cUnesco has\u00a0adopted\u00a0a set of global standards on the ethics of neurotechnology, a field that has been described as \u201ca bit of a <\/em>wild west<\/em><\/strong>\u201d.<\/em>\u201d Use the expression in a sentence in the same context. Give a synonym.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. What does \u201cbugbear<\/strong>\u201d mean?\u00a0 \u201cThe current frontier of neurotechnology lies in improving brain-computer interfaces, which despite recent breakthroughs are in their\u00a0infancy\u00a0\u2013 and in the proliferation of consumer-oriented devices, which Mathews said could raise privacy concerns, a <\/em>bugbear<\/em><\/strong> of the Unesco standards.\u201d<\/em> Use the word in a sentence. Give a synonym.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Discussion Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. Share your thoughts on the two recent developments in neurotechnology: artificial intelligence (AI) which offers vast possibilities in decoding brain data and the proliferation of consumer-grade neurotech devices<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. \u00a0What are your thoughts on the possibility of companies using neurotechnology to subliminally market to people during their dreams in the future?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. Share your insights on this: Neurotechnology has the potential to define the next frontier of human progress, but it is not without risks<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. Share anything you know about neurotechnology.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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UNESCO has\u00a0adopted some guidelines […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[291,292,289,25,293],"class_list":["post-31224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homework","tag-b2-upper-intermediate","tag-first-certificate-fce","tag-reading","tag-technology","tag-text"],"yoast_head":"\nUnesco Adopts Global Standards on Neurotechnology | phone english blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/2025\/11\/unesco-adopts-global-standards-on-neurotechnology\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Unesco Adopts Global Standards on Neurotechnology | phone english blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"B2 – Upper Intermediate  The field of neurotechnology often described as a bit of a “wild west\u201d for lack of regulations governing the said technology at present. 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