Cognify: Revolutionary Prison Concept Uses AI and Brain Implants to Fast-Track Criminal Rehabilitation

Cognify is a revolutionary new jail concept that uses artificial intelligence and brain implants to reduce the time it takes for criminals to recover from years to minutes.

Introducing fictitious memories of crimes into convicts' brains is an innovative technique to reform the criminal justice system. It allows inmates to understand their misdeeds from the perspective of their victims.

Revolutionary Prison Concept Uses AI and Brain Implants to Fast-Track Criminal Rehabilitation — (Photo: Pixabay/ geralt)

Inside the Criminal's Mind: The Cognify Concept

Hashem Al-Ghaili, a creative scientist, developed Cognify, which represents a significant step forward in assisting offenders to improve. The technology contains a VR-like gadget that displays an AI-generated video of the crime and a brain implant that causes the individual to experience negative emotions such as regret and guilt.

These fabricated recollections are meant to be very real and detailed so that the offender feels the emotional effects of the crime. This could change their mind and make them less likely to commit another crime.

As part of the rehabilitation process, high-resolution brain scans are used to make precise maps of the neural pathways of the prisoners. Memory, thinking, and logical thought are among the brain regions that the Cognify gadget can target. These are the anterior cingulate cortex, parietal lobe, amygdala, hippocampus, and prefrontal cortex.

This way, the device ensures that the implanted memories are smoothly integrated into the brain's neural networks. This stops cognitive dissonance and ensures that the person experiencing the memories thinks they are real.

The Cognify rehabilitation meetings are meant to feel like years to the prisoner, even though they only last a few minutes in real-time. This is done by changing the way the criminal thinks about time, speeding up their actions' long-term effects. The memories can be altered to fit the needs of each person's rehabilitation, depending on how evil the act was.

The technology shows visual effects and makes people's bodies react, which lets criminals feel their victims' pain and suffering. Some memories are meant to cause long-lasting trauma, like the effect on the victim's body and mind or the grief of the victim's family.

In a demonstration film, 19 pods line a white room. Inside each pod is a prisoner wearing the Cognify device, which has headphones over their ears and a screen over their eyes. With this set-up, they are fully immersed in the memories made by AI.

As inmates undergo these intense events, a central computer records information that will help researchers understand what motivates people to do bad things. The system's storage is encrypted to keep private information about prisoners and their recovery safe.

Revolutionizing the Criminal Justice System

Cognify could significantly reduce the need for long-term prisons and their associated costs. Traditional jails cost a lot of money to build, maintain, staff, and provide prisoners with care such as food, medical care, and rehabilitation programs. The criminal justice system's cost could be significantly reduced if long prison terms were replaced with short, intensive rehabilitation programs.

Al-Ghaili says Cognify's fake memories would fit perfectly with the brain's natural neural networks. This would prevent cognitive dissonance and make the person think the memories are real. This smooth merging is critical for the rehabilitation process to work.

As people struggle with the problems with traditional prisons, Cognify offers a futuristic solution that sees criminals more like patients, getting to the bottom of why they do bad things and giving them a way to change. There are more than 1.7 million people in jail in the US right now, and studies have shown that prison does not effectively stop people from committing crimes again. This means that new solutions like Cognify are needed more than ever.

Though implementing Cognify still raises some social issues and concerns, it is a significant step in reevaluating how we assist criminals in becoming better. Combining AI and neuroscience may result in a more efficient and just criminal justice system.