Chapter 20 - Assessing systemic benefit and risk in the development of BCI neurotechnology

Chapter 20 - Assessing systemic benefit and risk in the development of BCI neurotechnology

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For both neurotechnology as an engineering field and neuroethics as an academic discipline, it must be imperative to explore and address the wide implications of BCI use (and nonuse) at the aggregate level as well as the individual level. Multisystem (e.g., cross-cultural or international) considerations merit both economic and ethical consideration. Future BCI will probably has to be empowered by AI capable of anticipating, channeling, nudging, and effectively encouraging (as well as discouraging) some kinds of thoughts and choices, much like it completes queries and fulfills prompts. Unless brains are tightly geared with AI, human awareness will get left behind to be merely “on the loop” instead of “in the loop.” Hence, BCI neurotechnology could not be used in a “neutral manner” by generic consumers apart from their social surroundings and cultural traditions. Its increasing usage will generate considerable reconfiguration and disruption of extant social, economic, and power balances on the 21st century world stage. We recommend a cosmopolitan approach for neuroethics to address and potentially resolve such issues with innovations such as BCI, suggesting guidelines and regulations for transnational implementation.

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Book Chapter

Topic(s)

Emerging Science and Technologies

Publication Date

11-2024

Publisher

Academic Press

City

Cambridge, Massachusetts

ISBN

978-0-323-95439-6

Chapter 20 - Assessing systemic benefit and risk in the development of BCI neurotechnology

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