OK, here’s something truly terrifying to contemplate.

Scientists say they’ve developed a real mind-reading machine that instantly translates your thoughts into text.  According to its inventors, the machine reads neural signals in your brain as you translate letters into words and then into whole sentences. The machine is said to have the ability to translate even words it has not previously “learned.”

The alleged idea is to help handicapped people with normal brain functions but who cannot speak — for instance, ALS patients — to think their messages onto a screen for communications. Researchers claim the device already has a 90 percent accuracy rate.

The instrument was developed at the University of California and detailed in the Journal of Neural Engineering.

According to study leader David Moses:

No published work has demonstrated real-time classification of sentences from neural signals. Given the performance exhibited by [the machine] in this work and its capacity for expansion, we are confident in its ability to serve as a platform for the proposed speech prosthetic device.

However, the machine emitting unconscious thoughts may well strike profound fears into the hearts and minds of co-workers trapped in endless business meetings. What if President Trump could read the thoughts of cabinet members in a meeting.

Or can you imagine if your private thoughts in a work meeting could be read or heard by others nearby? “What a loser! Is he ever going to shut up?” “C’mon. C’mon. C’mon. Wrap it up. I’m hungry.” “Wait a minute! That was my idea.”

Or even worse, printing out the spontaneous private thoughts of life partners out to dinner in a nice restaurant. “OMG! That woman over at that other table is stunning!”