PREPARING FOR THE INTEGRATION OF AI AND HUMAN
Elon Musk’s Neuralink has for the first time implanted its Brain/Computer Interface — named “Telepathy” — into a human. Threading more than 1,000 superthin, flexible conductors into the cerebral cortex, his team is using Bluetooth to enable us to speak and interact with a computer just by thinking.
Implanting microelectrodes in the brain, Stanford researchers are decoding signals at 62 words per minute, a rate that’s approaching the speed of everyday speech.
Scientists at Carleton University are developing a biometric security device that will eliminate the need to remember passwords. Instead, our unique brain-wave signatures will serve as "pass-thoughts," enabling us to log into any of our devices just by thinking.
Nature Electronics has named the full range of Brain/Computer Interfaces as their “technology of the year," noting the rapid progress that’s being made in establishing direct communication between the brain and external devices to recorde, decode, and stimulate neural activity.
UNESCO has called for global regulation of Brain/Computer Interfaces and the urgent need for a universal ethical framework for BCIs. BCIs have the potential to significantly alter human experiences and capabilities, raising concerns about privacy, autonomy, and the potential for misuse.
Colorado has become the first state to protect data generated by the brain, spinal cord and the network of nerves that relays messages throughout the body.
"Cognitive liberty" is the human right we most need to be talking about, says Duke law and philosophy professor Nita Farahany.
Advances in neuroscience are taking us closer to a reality in which "individuals, companies, and governments will be able to hack and track our brains in ways that fundamentally affect our freedom to understand, shape, and define ourselves," she says.
"We are rapidly heading toward a world of brain transparency, in which scientists, doctors, governments, and companies may peer into our brains and minds at will.”
In 1999, Ray Kurzweil predicted we'd have human-level AI by 2029.
Most experts scoffed, insisting it was 50 to 100 years away.
No one's laughing now.
Kurzweil painted a vision with high-bandwidth brain-computer interfaces (BCI) connecting our neocortices to AI clouds.
Are you ready to become a cyborg?
A Unitarian Universalist, Kurzweil poses this question us all.
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