An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at based on a brain scan

Scientists hope it could be used to reconstruct a person’s inner thoughts, mental images or even their dreams.

October 1, 2026

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A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and recreate 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…