Ever since Tesla CEO and founder Elon Musk announced his plans to develop the Neural Lace, a Brain Machine Interface (BMI) like device that forms a thin nano-sized "lace" over a users cereberal cortex, via his Neuralink subsidiary, and Mark Zuckerberg announced he was starting development of his own BMI telepathic device, the technology has, unsurprisingly, started to get significantly more attention. Musk, however, wasn't the first to propose the possibility of enhancing human capabilities using BMI devices, not by a long shot. In his case he's trying to use them to, literally, "connect" humans with AI's, and elsewhere the US Department of Defense's cutting edge research arm DARPA also recently funded a similar mission, but in their case it wasn't just to read thoughts it was to facilitate the ability to upload knowledge directly to the human brain, and elsewhere even healthcare companies are in on the act trying to use them to help "locked in" ALS patients communicate with loved ones – and much more besides. Now, according to a collaboration of 27 experts, neuroscientists, neurotechnologists, clinicians, ethicists and machine-intelligence engineers, calling themselves the Morningside Group, BMIs present a unique and rather disturbing conundrum in the realm of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Essentially designed to hack the brain, BMIs themselves run the risk of being hacked by AI. "Such advances [in BMI] could revolutionise the treatment of many conditions, from brain injury and paralysis to epilepsy and schizophrenia, and transform human experience for the better," wrote the experts in a recent the experts wrote in a recent Nature journal, "but the technology could also exacerbate social inequalities and offer corporations, hackers, governments or anyone else new ways to exploit and manipulate people. And it could profoundly alter some core human characteristics such as the right to a private mental life, individual agency and an understanding of individuals as entities bound by their bodies."