Between humanity and technology
What makes us human? The UW Center for Neurotechnology partners with the Philosophy Department to examine the ethics of tomorrow.
Joan, an Army specialist, is rumbling down a remote gravel road, the hulking mountains of central Afghanistan barely visible through the dust kicked up by her convoy.
The next moment, the Humvee is nearly torn in half by an improvised explosive device.
It’s not until she wakes up later in a military hospital that reality hits her: She has lost her arm above the elbow, and
her life is changed forever.
After months of rehab in the U.S., Joan participates in a clinical trial for a cutting-edge robotic arm controlled by a brain-computer interface (BCI). A chip implanted in her brain and a network of electrodes comb through the electric chatter, using artificial intelligence (AI) to decode Joan’s intentions
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