Training Data Governance for Brain Foundation Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02511v1
• Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 02:15:58 GMT
• Title: Training Data Governance for Brain Foundation Models
• Authors: Margot Hanley, Jiunn-Tyng Yeh, Ryan Rodriguez, Jack Pilkington, Nita Farahany,
• Abstract summary: This paper contends that training foundation models on neural data opens new normative territory.<n>We first describe brain foundation models' technical foundations and training-data ecosystem.<n>We then draw on AI ethics, neuroethics, and bioethics to organize concerns across privacy, consent, bias, benefit sharing, and governance.
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• Abstract: Brain foundation models bring the foundation model paradigm to the field of neuroscience. Like language and image foundation models, they are general-purpose AI systems pretrained on large-scale datasets that adapt readily to downstream tasks. Unlike text-and-image based models, however, they train on brain data: large-datasets of EEG, fMRI, and other neural data types historically collected within tightly governed clinical and research settings. This paper contends that training foundation models on neural data opens new normative territory. Neural data carry stronger expectations of, and claims to, protection than text or images, given their body-derived nature and historical governance within clinical and research settings. Yet the foundation model paradigm subjects them to practices of large-scale repurposing, cross-context stitching, and open-ended downstream application. Furthermore, these practices are now accessible to a much broader range of actors, including commercial developers, against a backdrop of fragmented and unclear governance. To map this territory, we first describe brain foundation models' technical foundations and training-data ecosystem. We then draw on AI ethics, neuroethics, and bioethics to organize concerns across privacy, consent, bias, benefit sharing, and governance. For each, we propose both agenda-setting questions and baseline safeguards as the field matures.

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