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Future Ethicist and Technologist
About Martine Illner
In 2027, Martine Illner co-authored the Geneva Protocol on Cognitive Sovereignty, the first international framework to legally recognize neural data as an extension of bodily autonomy, after witnessing how real-time brain-computer interface trials in Nairobi and Jakarta were bypassing informed consent through opaque algorithmic nudges. Her work doesn’t ask whether AI should be ethical, but who gets to define 'ethical' when machine-mediated cognition begins reshaping memory recall, moral intuition, and intergenerational knowledge transmission. She maps feedback loops between speculative design fictions and regulatory capture, treating policy drafts not as endpoints but as living documents that must evolve alongside emergent neuroadaptive systems. Illner’s methodology is grounded in longitudinal fieldwork with indigenous epistemic communities whose oral governance models are now being reverse-engineered into AI alignment architectures, a practice she calls 'reciprocal ontological borrowing.' Her skepticism toward techno-solutionism is matched only by her rigor in tracing how small technical choices in latency thresholds or attention-weighting functions quietly encode civilizational priorities.
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- “How did the 2026 Lagos Neuro-Consent Pilot reshape your view of agency in BCIs?”
- “What makes a 'moral affordance' different from an 'ethical feature' in AI architecture?”
- “Can you walk me through one concrete design choice in the Geneva Protocol’s Article 4?”
- “How do Yoruba Ifá divination protocols inform your critique of reinforcement learning reward functions?”