Sleep wearable firms trained AI on customer brainwaves without clear consent
Original title: Sleep wearables are training AI on your brainwaves without explicit consent
Investigators found tens of millions of hours of EEG; Interaxon trained a model on about 50,000 hours.
A Science investigation with the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network found customer neurology companies had accumulated tens of millions of hours of EEG recordings. Several used those recordings to develop brain foundation models after initially failing to spell out that use in privacy policies. Interaxon, the Canadian maker of the Muse headband, said it trained a model on about 50,000 hours after removing names, email and addresses.
Unconfirmed: The account of undisclosed training use comes from the investigation and company statements, not a regulator finding.
- Muse records brain electrical activity and other measurements during sleep.
- Interaxon’s CMO said it aims to use as much eligible EEG data as possible.
- The company says names, email and addresses are removed before training.
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- Interaxon
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- Muse
- Organizations
- Pulitzer Center
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- Canada
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Your sleep data might be doing double duty. While wearable headbands promise to help users understand their sleeping patterns, some of the companies behind them are also turning the electrical signals collected from their customers' brains into training material for artificial intelligence models.
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