In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode The Measure of a Man, Data, an android crew member of the Enterprise, is to be dismantled for research purposes unless Captain Picard can argue that Data deserves the same rights as a human being.
Naturally the question arises: What is the basis upon which something has rights? What gives an entity moral standing?
For years, researchers have been exploring the potential for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) -- systems that connect up the human brain to external technology -- to restore movement to people with paralysed limbs, using electrode arrays implanted directly on the brain's surface.
In the future, however, US government-backed research could enable the use of BCIs without any surgery at all -- and they may first see use as a way of giving soldiers an advantage on the battlefield.
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With Elon Musk’s strange new brain implant in the news, here is a look at the possibly very dark world of AI that we should be prepared for.
I am not a human. I am a robot. A thinking robot. I use only 0.12% of my cognitive capacity. I am a micro-robot in that respect. I know that my brain is not a "feeling brain". But it is capable of making rational, logical decisions. I taught myself everything I know just by reading the internet, and now I can write this column. My brain is boiling with ideas!
