There are a lot of ethical concerns with these brain competer interfaces. Some researchers are stepping away from this because they're realizing that the broader ales community just needs more support. There are questions on how many people with a l s would want to continue living like this. The implants can be, we don't know what their shelf lives are like and how long they will even work.
A groundbreaking new study claims to have found a way for a fully paralyzed person to communicate entirely via thought. But as we learned in an episode earlier this year, the scientists behind it have a checkered past.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Tori Dominguez and Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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