Politico December 20, 2024
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A United Nations panel is warning that a technology Elon Musk champions could lead to human rights abuses.
Brain-computer interfaces, which translate brain activity into commands that can control devices such as computers or robotic prosthetic limbs, promise to help people who are paralyzed move a cursor or a keyboard with their thoughts. Musk, a technology billionaire whom President-elect Donald Trump has tasked with co-leading a “Department of Government Efficiency,” is the founder of Neuralink, a brain-computer interface company.
If a brain-computer interface is used inappropriately by the military, it could lead to human rights abuses, according to a report by an advisory committee to the United Nations Human Rights Council.
How so? The technology “could effectively provide...
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