What are the ethics of brain-computer interfaces?

A new book delves into the ethics of brain-computer interface technologies.

Devices that allow computers to interface with the human brain are already here—close to 200,000 people have cochlear implants in the United States alone. And a wide range of additional brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies are in development. As these technologies become more common, so do questions related to ethics and policy—with agencies from the Federal Trade Commission to the FDA already facing regulatory decisions about BCI devices.

A new book, Policy, Identity, and Neurotechnology: The Neuroethics of Brain-Computer Interfaces (Springer, 2023), explores these issues and more. The book was co-edited by Veljko Dubljević, an associate professor at North Carolina State University who leads the NeuroComputational Ethics Research Group; and by Allen Coin, a former graduate student at NC State.

Here, Coin and Dubljević speak about what BCI devices are on the horizon, and the questions those technologies raise:

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