Brain-Computer-Interfaces (BCIs) read and interpret brain activity. To handle the massive influx of data, AI is used to detect neural patterns and provide feed-back.
At the 2017 World Government Summit, Elon Musk suggested that humans should merge their biological-intelligence with machine-intelligence to enhance their cognitive and sensory abilities, fighting-off the supremacy of future super intelligent machines.
To prevent misuse, tough legal constraints need to be enforced to regulate the potentially positive as well as the potentially negative implications of neural augmentation. Considering what has become reality from past dystopian visions as suggested by Huxley and Orwell, there are good reasons to be alarmed.
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