When Mind Melds With Machine, Who’s in Control? | WIRED

Brain-computer interfaces are getting better all the time—and they’re about to land us in a philosophical quagmire.

Save this story Save this story The AI Database → Application Human-computer interaction Ethics End User Research Sector Health care Technology Robotics The last time I saw my friend James was at the townie bar near our old high school. He had been working in roofing for a few years, no longer a rail-thin teenager with lank hippie hair. I had just gotten back from a stint with the Peace Corps in Turkmenistan. We reminisced about the summer after our freshman year, when we were inseparable—adventuring in the creek that sliced through the woods, debating the merits of Batman versus the Crow, wat

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