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Helping or hacking? Engineers and ethicists must work together on brain-computer interface technology

  • Written by Eran Klein, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neurology at Oregon Health and Sciences University and Affiliate Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Washington
imageA subject plays a computer game as part of a neural security experiment at the University of Washington.Patrick Bennett, Author provided

In the 1995 film “Batman Forever,” the Riddler used 3-D television to secretly access viewers’ most personal thoughts in his hunt for Batman’s true identity. By 2011, the metrics company Nie...

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