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accelerating, and preparing the human signature that will be placed beneath its result. THE MODEL MAY ADVISE. THE HUMAN STILL OWNS THE CONSEQUENCE. That development changes the meaning of civilian protection. A population can be pressured not only by weapons but by synthetic evidence, personalized persuasion, manufactured social proof, emotional profiling, and uncertainty about whether any voice or image is authentic. The United States Department of Defense stated that military AI should be responsible, equitable, traceable, reliable, and governable, including the ability to disengage or deactivate systems that behave unexpectedly. [6] The International Committee of the Red Cross called for legally binding limits on autonomous weapons, including prohibitions on unpredictable systems and systems designed to apply force against people without sufficient human control. [7] The United Nations Secretary-General called for prohibitions and restrictions on lethal autonomous weapons and for humans to retain control over decisions involving life and death. [8] The international human-rights baseline already recognizes freedom of thought, conscience, and religion. Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights protects that inner freedom, and the Human Rights Committee has treated the forum of thought and conscience as non-derogable and resistant to compelled disclosure. [11] In November 2025, UNESCO adopted the first global normative instrument on the ethics of neurotechnology. It addresses dignity, autonomy, personal identity, freedom of thought, cognitive liberty, free will, mental privacy, and the protection of brain data, especially where neurotechnology and AI intersect. [12] The OECD's responsible-neurotechnology framework similarly emphasizes safety, inclusivity, societal deliberation, stewardship, protection of personal brain data, and anticipation of misuse. [13] The mind has entered the procurement cycle. Brain data, emotional inference, attention, vulnerability, and belief are becoming governable inputs. FFTAC reads these documents not as permission slips from respectable institutions, but as evidence that the boundary we named is already under pressure. THE MIND IS NOT THE NEXT RESOURCE FIELD. The question is not limited to implants. Search histories, prompts, voice, gaze, typing rhythm, purchases, location, social graphs, and biometric signals can all be used to infer attention, emotion, vulnerability, belief, or intent. The inference may be wrong and still govern a life.