The founder of Neuralink, Elon Musk, has ambitions to connect similar AI chips to many other areas of the brain, to help people with conditions such as obesity, autism, depression and schizophrenia. But that would imply major interference in mental processes. Sow where is all this heading?
Artificial Intelligence is about groups of computers working together to emulate human intelligence, able to reason, think for themselves, and make their own decisions, often fasters and smarter than our brains. AI brain devices will of course take this a stage further. Future forms of AI will therefore include networks of computers and human brains, collaborating in complex and varied ways.
But what will it feel like to be connected up to next-generation AI chips, to be mentally enhanced by AI, with all kinds of data flowing between your brain and AI via the internet? How much influence could advanced forms of AI gain over your thinking or emotions?
What about longer-term risks, such as epilepsy caused by scarring around such devices, or subtle personality changes, or the triggering of mental health issue, depending on where such chips are implanted? What will it be like to live or work with someone who has been altered in this way? What about the risk of such brain devices being hacked? Will people be fully restored to how they were before if such devices are removed?
The truth is that such AI brain chips are only a very small dimensions of a much wider issue. Our world is spinning into an AI- dominated future, which will for sure deliver many extraordinary things, but we urgently need more debate about the wider impacts of what is already happening, or is likely to. What do you think?
DecodeIn
Software Engineer
It's exciting and in the same time it may affect human rational thinking
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