Last month, beerbommer and chaldery published this new experiment. There's a lot of ethical concerns with these brain computer interfaces. Some researchers are stepping away from this because they're realizing that the broader ales community just needs more support. The implants can be we don't know what their shelf lives are like,. How long they will even work, and how many surger it'll take till ti reinstart them.
A groundbreaking new study claims to have found a way for a fully paralyzed person to communicate entirely via thought. But the scientists behind it have a checkered past.
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