The NeurotechEU Symposium on May 13, 2025 will take place at the University of Bonn on the occasion of the NeurotechEU Board of Rectors Meeting 2025. The scientific community is invited to attend and participate in discussions on the various aspects of neurotechnology.

On behalf of Rector Michael Hoch and the Vice Rectors Birgit Ulrike Münch and Ilona Grunwald, we would like to cordially invite you to this year's NeurotechEU Meet-up Bonn. This year's event will be hosted by Matthias Braun and is entitled:  Deep Fakes - Between Nudging and  Manipulating  Generative AI is creating digital replicas on an unprecedented scale, and these are being manipulated and misused. Deep fakes are an issue in many areas, and it is already clear that the technology will continue to develop in this area in the future and could play a role in more and more sectors of society. The banking and finance sector, the education sector, but especially the healthcare sector, are coming under increasing pressure. Although healthcare is one of the most regulated industries, based on the principles of trust and precision, the risks of counterfeiting are still underestimated. Digital fakes in their current form can easily tempt patients to follow unproven and untested treatments that could cost lives. There is, therefore, an urgent need to understand and address the issues arising from the use of deep fakes in healthcare to avoid confusion, mistrust and compromised health outcomes. At the same time, deep fakes pose larger epistemological and ethical questions: How can we be sure of anything we know? How might we use technology to distinguish fact from fiction? In what domains might humans have always accepted fakes and still make good decisions?