Neuralink (one of the Elon’s companies) is working on a brain-computer interfaces. They’re making progress, but they have a ways to go.
If we assume they, or someone else in the field, are successful, what then?
Do we all become bionic? Will regular humans be obsolete?
Well, what about automation today?
Just as machines are taking over tasks that once required human labor, advanced brain-computer interfaces could take over functions that currently require human thought.
But are they augmenting or replacing? Extending or rendering obsolete?
The prospect of brain-computer interfaces, like computers, robots, and AI before it, highlights the perpetual tension between technology and ethics, progress and equality, the artificial and the natural.
Just as we’re grappling with the societal shifts brought about by automation, the challenge won’t just be in the technology itself, but in how we integrate it into the fabric of human life.
