Gizmodo reported:
The UN is advising against neurotechnology using unregulated Al chip implantations, saying it poses a grave risk to people's mental privacy. Unregulated
neurotechnology could pose harmful long-term risks, the UN says, such as shaping the way a young person thinks or accessing private thoughts and emotions.
It specified its concerns centered around
"unregulated neurotechnology," and did not mention Neuralink, which received FDA approval in May to conduct microchip brain implant trials on humans.
Elon Musk, who co-founded Neuralink, has made big claims, saying the chips will cure people of lifelong health issues, allowing the blind to see and the paralyzed to walk again. But the implications of people using unregulated forms of this technology could have disastrous consequences by accessing the thoughts of those who use it, the UN said in a press release.
"Neurotechnology could help solve many health issues, but it could also access and manipulate people's brains, and produce information about our identities, and our emotions," UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay said in the release. "It could threaten our rights to human dignity, freedom of thought, and privacy. There is an urgent need to establish a common ethical framework at the international level, as UNESCO has done for artificial intelligence."
If the brain chips are implanted in children while they are still neurologically developing, it could disrupt the way their