Neuroscientists Develop AI-Based Method for Hacking Fear

Imagine a library of fear. Lining its aisles aren't photo albums of snakes and plummeting aircraft, but are instead volumes containing cross-sectional scans of human brains. They are familiar fMRI images of folded grey matter and feature red-yellow flames of neural activity. In the fear library, these flames vary volume to volume and fear to fear. Different fears feature unique, consistent signatures in the brain, which is the fact that allows them to be so neatly cataloged.