Neuralink’s Technology Is Impressive. Is It Ethical?

Elon Musk’s audacious vision of a smartphone-controlled brain-machine interface comes with potential risks

Andrew Maynard
OneZero
Published in
8 min readJul 23, 2019

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IImagine being able to walk into a strip-mall and have thousands of microscopically-fine electrodes inserted into your brain, all implanted as quickly and as efficiently as if you were having LASIK…

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Andrew Maynard
OneZero

Scientist, author, & Professor of Advanced Technology Transitions at Arizona State University