As Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) move rapidly from sci-fi promise to clinical reality, they challenge our assumptions about autonomy, privacy, and what it means to be human. This article explores how BCIs turn thoughts into data, inviting the same extractive models that already dominate our digital lives into the mind itself. With tech giants leading the race and regulation lagging behind, it asks what ethical frameworks and democratic safeguards are needed to protect cognitive agency.

AI is reshaping our world—but not equally. This article explores how artificial intelligence amplifies existing global inequalities, concentrating benefits in the Global North while pushing environmental burdens and ethical risks onto the Global South. Drawing on concepts like digital colonialism and disparities in AI investment, it reveals how access without autonomy reinforces injustice—and calls for a more democratic and inclusive technological future.