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The Road Ahead for AI

Published in Tom Lawry, AI in Health, 2020

New technologies are being developed that blur the lines between computers and biology. The emerging field of neurotechnology involves brain–machine interfaces, neuroprosthetics, neurostimulation, and implantable devices that not only augment nervous system activity but expand its capabilities.

The neurotechnology and society interface: responsible innovation in an international context

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Published in Journal of Responsible Innovation, 2018

Diana M. Bowman, Hermann Garden, Clare Stroud, David E. Winickoff

At the same time there is broad agreement across national jurisdictions that innovation in brain science and neurotechnology raise a host of ethical, legal, and social issues (ELSI) and governance questions (Garden et al. 2016). Brain science and its applications carry unique power to engage with our identity, self- understanding, and the natural boundaries of cognition. The perception of a gap in thinking about the neurotechnology and society interface has given rise to new scholarly fields, including ‘neurolaw’ and ‘neuroethics’. The widely perceived need for better thinking on neurotechnology and society – and for better approaches to manage their interactions at an early stage (see, for example, Hauser 2014; Sullivan and Illes 2017) – is in no small part due to the long and complicated history of brain science and therapeutic interventions (see, for example, Gross 1999; Finger 2001) such as lobotomy, electroconvulsive therapy, and psychopharmaceuticals.4