Neuroscientist offers warning on brain-machine interface
From: Evaluation Engineering - Rick's Blog - 10/23/2017
By: Rick Nelson

Beyond disease treatment, Miguel Nicolelis, the Duke School of Medicine
Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience and Co-Director of Duke's Center for
Neuroengineering, presents two additional ideas conceived in his lab:
"connecting brains to form a network, or brainet, and developing a
communication method that lets people message one another directly
brain-to-brain."

He calls this the "stuff of science fiction" and cautions it isn't without
its perils: connected brains become hackable - enabling thoughts and actions
to be manipulated.

"Imagine if that weapon were real instead of virtual - a reality that could
be around the corner," he writes, advising that military uses of
brain-machine interfaces be banned by the international community.

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https://www.evaluationengineering.com/neuroscientist-offers-warning-brain-machine-interface