A crack team of Chinese scientists have developed a mind-reading AI porn helmet which will sound a loud alarm if someone watches porn.
Experts are warning that it could be used by Chinese government censors to keep tabs on the population and ensure they don't look at adult content, which is banned across the country.
The helmet scans your brainwaves and looks for porn-inspired spikes in neural activity using an artificial intelligence.
The researchers behind the device trialled it on fifteen male university students between 20 and 25. The students volunteered to wear the item and look at a series of photos on a computer screen, including images of nudity.
Every time they saw a 'sensitive' photo, an alarm would ring.
Xu Jianjun, one of the scientists behind the Beijing Jiaotong University, says the helmet is designed to help Chinese internet censors detect porn and adult content more easily.
The Chinese government currently employs hundreds of professional censors known as jian huang shi (a.k.a. 'porn appraisers') to monitor the internet for porn videos or photos on social media.
The AI helmet would help these porn appraisers detect this content with greater accuracy while scrolling through hundreds or even thousands of Internet posts.
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Developers said that the device may be able to automatically adjust to the brain signals of a human censor and filter out tiredness, emotion, and other thoughts.
The researchers said the device had over 80 percent accuracy but that no women were involved in experimental trials, despite many Chinese porn appraisers being women.
This has left it unclear whether the gender of the wearer affects the accuracy of the device.
Critics of the project have also said it could lead to ethical issues. A researcher at the University of Science and Technology of China told SCMP: "There is no law to regulate the use of such devices or protect the data they collected."
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