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Developing Ethical Priorities for Neurotechnologies and AI - Future of Life Institute

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Private companies and military sectors have moved beyond the goal of merely understanding the brain to that of augmenting and manipulating brain function. In particular, companies such as Elon Musk's Neuralink and Bryan Johnson's Kernel are hoping to harness advances in computing and artificial intelligence alongside neuroscience to provide new ways to merge our brains with computers. Musk also sees this as a means to help address both AI safety and human relevance as algorithms outperform humans in one area after another. He has previously stated, "Some high bandwidth interface to the brain will be something that helps achieve a symbiosis between human and machine intelligence and maybe solves the control problem and the usefulness problem." In a comment in Nature, 27 people from The Morningside Group outlined four ethical priorities for the emerging space of neurotechnologies and artificial intelligence.