Browsing by Subject "Brain-Computer Interfaces"
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Item Ethical quandaries of direct-to-consumer neurotechnology(2022-05-10) Kreitmair, Karola V.The direct-to-consumer (DTC) neurotechnology market, which includes brain computer interfaces (BCI), non-invasive neurostimulation devices, virtual reality systems (VR), wearables, and certain smartphone apps, is rapidly growing. This technology's quasi-clinical domain and its status as a consumer product, raises a number of ethical issues, including safety, transparency, privacy, and epistemic appropriateness. In addition, DTC neurotechnology provokes more fundamental questions regarding what may be thought of as the "responsibilization" of the user/patient. While DTC neurotechnology is standardly touted as a means of empowering users, I argue that such empowerment may not be of the sort that is genuinely beneficial to users.Item Neurotechnologies and agency: ethical issues in engineering the brain(2021-03-09) Goering, Sara L.Implanted neurotechnologies offer significant promise for enhancing the agency of people with motor, communication and psychiatric disorders, but they can also create confusions around agency and responsibility, and open new doors to manipulation. In this talk, I share some of my experiences of working in a center for neurotechnology and bring resources from feminist bioethics and disability studies to bear on the nature of relational- or co-agency.