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title: "An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at from a brain scan"
description: "A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and re-create that image with remarkable precision. It can go the other way, too, and predict a person’s brain activity based on what they’re looking at. In the image above, for example, the left-hand image of each pair is what…"
author: "Jessica Hamzelou"
section: ai-tech
published: 2026-10-08T13:32:58.040239+00:00
canonical: https://valorandventures.media/article/bc370cbc-ec85-4009-a980-3ec555e1226f
publisher: "Valor & Ventures Media"
source: "MIT Technology Review"
source_url: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/01/1145588/ai-mind-reading-reconstructs-what-youre-looking-at/
access: free
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# An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at from a brain scan

*A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and re-create that image with remarkable precision. It can go the other way, too, and predict a person’s brain activity based on what they’re looking at. In the image above, for example, the left-hand image of each pair is what…*

## Article

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Jessica Hamzelou · MIT Technology Review

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Originally published by MIT Technology Review: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/01/1145588/ai-mind-reading-reconstructs-what-youre-looking-at/