While Tesla CEO Elon Musk believes his brain-computer interface startup Neuralink is the future of human interactions with technology, many experts aren’t so convinced.
Researchers and scientists spoke to The Daily Beast this week to express horror at Musk’s goal of connecting human brains to computers. Ultimately, at the heart of their apprehension is the infusion of Big Tech into the human mind.
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“I don’t think there’s enough public discourse about what the general implications are of this type of technology becoming available,” Karola Kreitmair, an assistant professor of medical history and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, told the website. “I worry that there is this uncomfortable marriage between a for-profit company,” she added.
Indeed, the ethics around technology like Neuralink is uncharted territory. As such, many are concerned about how these products – ostensibly intended to help people with disabilities – can be exploited for profit.
“If the ultimate goal is to use the acquired brain data for other devices, or to use those devices for other things – say, driving cars, driving Teslas – then there could be a much, much bigger market,” said Dr. L. Syd Johnson. , an associate professor at the Center for Bioethics and the Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University, told the Daily Beast.
“But then all these human research subjects – people with genuine needs – are being exploited and used in risky research for someone else’s commercial gain,” she continued.
Kreitmair echoed the sentiment. While she believes the technology can “change the lives” of paralyzed people, she told the Daily Beast that its potential for consumer use “raises a number of ethical concerns.”
Some experts are also concerned that Musk is nothing more than a boatman who says anything and will stop at nothing to make money – which, well, fair enough. He has been known to make grandiose promises before only to rudely fulfill them beforehand. Who’s to say Neuralink won’t be the same?
“With these companies and business owners, they’re kind of a showmen,” Dr. Laura Cabrera, a neuroethics researcher at Penn State, told Beast. “They’re going to make these hyperbolic claims, and I think that’s dangerous, because I think people sometimes believe blindly.”
She later added, “I’m always cautious about what I do. [Elon Musk] it says”.
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