- Cognitive liberty
- The principle that a person should retain meaningful freedom over thought, attention, memory, identity, mental privacy, and cognitive self-direction.
- Mental privacy
- The ability to keep thoughts, mental states, and sensitive cognitive inferences from unwanted observation, profiling, or use.
- Cognitive autonomy
- The practical ability to direct one’s own thinking and decision processes rather than being covertly steered by another actor or system.
- Personal agency
- A person’s capacity to make and act on choices, including the practical ability to refuse, change course, or choose alternatives.
- Persuasive technology
- Technology intentionally designed to influence attitudes or behavior. Cognitive-liberty concerns increase when influence is hidden, difficult to escape, or based on intimate profiling.
- AI memory
- Persistent information used by an AI system to influence later interactions, including stored facts, preferences, summaries, or other context.
- Provenance
- Information about where a record came from, what changed it, and which source or process has authority over its current form.
- Neurotechnology
- Technology that measures, interacts with, or influences nervous-system activity, including brain-computer interfaces and neural sensing.
Reference
Cognitive liberty glossary.
Concise definitions for the terms used throughout this site.