Prison of the Future: Criminals Will Feel the Pain of Their Victims
This is the end of traditional prisons. Instead of a cell, prisoners will have a session with memory and emotion programming. After 10 minutes, we will have a different person, regretting their actions and ready to return to society.
In prisons of the future, AI and neurological implants will be commonplace
Hashem Al-Ghailieg, a molecular biologist and science popularizer, has released a video showing the future of prisons. The scientist presented a vision of the “Prison of the Future,” which involves implanting an AI implant into a prisoner that generates artificial memories of crimes, but from the perspective of the victim.
The film explains how this virtual prison, which Al-Ghaili called, would theoretically work. Cognify. In short, prisoners would be subjected to 10 minutes of intense AI-generated contentwhich would be “injected” into the brain and would also modify DNA and RNA, along with hormonal changes — targeting every part of the brain involved in memory formation.
We will traumatize a prisoner in ten minutes
Prisoners would be given content designed to evoke emotional states such as remorse or regret, while allowing the prisoner to experience the crime from the victim’s perspective. The rehabilitation technique would last only a few minutes, but it could feel much longer to the prisoner, giving the impression of having served several years of a sentence.
Such memories could simulate the long-term consequences of violent actions, such as the grief of the victim’s family or the physical and emotional trauma experienced by the victim.
– says Hashem Al-Ghailieg
The ethical implications may be a problem, but the solution is already taking shape
Although we do not yet have the technology to build virtual prisons and Cognify is just a proposal, Work on this type of solution is already underway on animalsnot to mention about Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain-computer interfaces.
Hashem Al-Ghailieg is aware of the ethical issues, but sees a big problem with Cognify a chance for therapy for prisoners instead of classic punishment. The fact that memories built into the brain will be permanent is supposed to ensure a long-term effect of the treatment. It is also a great chance to significantly reduce the costs of serving prisoners, and this argument may convince the last doubters in the solution.
What’s more, Cognify is also a chance for patients with PTSD symptoms, because just as traumatic memories can be injected, so too you can replace past traumas with positive thoughts.
