Four ethical priorities for neurotechnologies and AI

Nature. 2017 Nov 8;551(7679):159-163. doi: 10.1038/551159a.

Authors

Rafael Yuste¹, Sara Goering², Blaise Agüera Y Arcas³, Guoqiang Bi⁴, Jose M Carmena⁵, Adrian Carter⁶, Joseph J Fins⁷, Phoebe Friesen⁸, Jack Gallant⁵, Jane E Huggins⁹, Judy Illes¹⁰, Philipp Kellmeyer¹¹, Eran Klein¹², Adam Marblestone¹³, Christine Mitchell¹⁴, Erik Parens¹⁵, Michelle Pham¹⁶, Alan Rubel¹⁷, Norihiro Sadato¹⁸, Laura Specker Sullivan¹⁶, Mina Teicher¹⁹, David Wasserman²⁰, Anna Wexler²¹, Meredith Whittaker²², Jonathan Wolpaw²³

Affiliations

¹ Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA.
² the University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
³ Google, Mountain View, California, USA.
⁴ University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
⁵ University of California, Berkeley, USA.
⁶ Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
⁷ Weill Cornell Medicine, New York City, USA.
⁸ New York University, New York City, USA.
⁹ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
¹⁰ University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
¹¹ University of Freiburg, Germany.
¹² University of Washington, Seattle; and Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, USA.
¹³ Kernel, Los Angeles, California; and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
¹⁴ Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
¹⁵ The Hastings Center, Garrison, New York, USA.
¹⁶ University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
¹⁷ University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
¹⁸ the National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan.
¹⁹ Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
²⁰ the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.
²¹ University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
²² AI Now, New York City, USA.
²³ the National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies, Albany, New York.

PMID: 29120438
PMCID: PMC8021272
DOI: 10.1038/551159a

Abstract

Artificial intelligence and brain-computer interfaces must respect and preserve people’s privacy, identity, agency and equality, say Rafael Yuste, Sara Goering and colleagues.

MeSH terms

Alzheimer Disease / diagnosis
Animals
Artificial Intelligence / economics
Artificial Intelligence / ethics*
Artificial Intelligence / trends
Bioengineering / economics
Bioengineering / ethics*
Bioengineering / trends
Biomedical Enhancement / ethics
Biomedical Enhancement / methods
Brain-Computer Interfaces / economics
Brain-Computer Interfaces / ethics*
Brain-Computer Interfaces / trends
Codes of Ethics*
Electroencephalography
Female
Guidelines as Topic*
Humans
Individuality
Informed Consent / ethics
Informed Consent / legislation & jurisprudence
Male
Neural Networks, Computer
Neurosciences / economics
Neurosciences / ethics*
Neurosciences / trends
Parkinson Disease / diagnosis
Privacy* / legislation & jurisprudence

Abstract

MeSH terms

Grants and funding