But Musk is not the only one committed to the development of brain-machine interfaces (BCI): also Facebook He has on the table a project called 'Building 8', with which he hopes to be able to read the thoughts of his users.
In fact, they claim to have developed an algorithm capable of decode words in real time from our brain activity. Somewhat reassuring given the company's history in privacy matters in recent years.
Y they are not the only companies with similar plans: Kernel, Emotiv, and Neurosky are also working on developing their own BCIs and being able to launch them one day on the market. In their case they claim the search for ethical purposes, such as helping people with paralysis to control their devices (from their personal computers to robotic arms).
Orwell didn't see Musk and Zuckerberg coming
In the work of George Orwell '1984' it was said that, in the dystopian world in which the novel is set, "nothing was of the individual, except for a few cubic centimeters inside his skull." But even that last frontier of privacy could fall thanks to all these projects developed recently in Silicon Valley.
“Brain data is the last refuge of our privacy. When that ends, everything ends. And once that data begins to be collected on a large scale, it will be very difficult to reverse the process. "(Marcelo Ienca)
This is motivating some scientists and intellectuals to denounce that Our current laws are nowhere near prepared for the threats to which these technologies now begin to open the doors. They would be at stake, they say, so basic aspects of our lives that we cannot even think of them in terms of legal 'rights'.
Therefore, they propose bring human rights also within our skulls creating what they call 'neuro-rights'. Two academics residing in Switzerland, the Argentine Roberto Adorno (specialist in bioethics) and the Italian Marcello Ienca (specialist in neuroethics), have been defending the need to protect the thoughts and memories stored in the brains of citizens of all kinds of theft or hacking.
And they have summed up that need for protection in four new human rights:
Right to cognitive freedom
Ienca and Adorno defend that humans have the right to use these new neurotechnologies, but also to receive protection against unauthorized use of these over us.
Mental privacy
If the websites and applications collect such an amount of data about their users today that it has been necessary to submit them to personal data protection laws to avoid negative repercussions on them, it will be necessary put the new BCIs under an even stricter legal status, for its ability to access much more data of a much more private nature.
Mental integrity
They thus define the protection of the mind against possible damages. They argue that, if computers can be hacked, the new devices that Musk and Zuckerberg try to implant in the brains of users can suffer the same fate, so we must be protected before unauthorized access or manipulation of neuronal signals that can lead to psychological or physical damage.
Psychological continuity
Finally, Ienca and Adorno talk about the right to preserve personal identity and coherence of individual behavior against alterations made without permission by third parties (for example, the modification, addition or deletion of memories "essential for a human to recognize himself").
Via | Vox.com
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