Ethical risks and countermeasures of brain-computer interface technology
10.12026/j.issn.1001-8565.2024.01.08
- VernacularTitle:脑机接口技术的伦理风险及应对措施
- Author:
Shengjie ZHANG
1
;
Changli ZHAO
;
Weicheng NING
;
Yuqing YAN
;
Fang HUANG
Author Information
1. 云南大学医学院,云南昆明 650000
- Keywords:
brain-computer interface;
ethical risk;
privacy security;
fairness;
user autonomy
- From:
Chinese Medical Ethics
2024;37(1):61-68
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
In the field of ethics,issues related to brain-computer interface(BCI)technology mainly focus on physical and mental ethics,as well as social ethics,including personal privacy rights,whether a person is a person in the complete sense,the attribution of social responsibility.The population involved includes patients,doctors,and the whole social group in which patients live.In addition to analyzing physical and mental ethical risks,this paper also analyzed the potential ethical issues that may exist in the future large-scale application of BCI based on the current research status,mainly including the right of informed consent,privacy,and decision-making of physical and mental ethical risks,the responsibility attribution and fairness of social ethical risks,the responsibility ascription and equity of social ethical risk,and the question that whether the brain is the carrier of machine or the machine is the continuation of the brain in future ethical risks.Solutions have been proposed in the three levels of individual,system,and institution to provide governance recommendations for the future development of BCI.In addition,local data was obtained by collecting and summarizing relevant opinions through social research.Based on these,the future risks of BCI were introduced for the first time,and from the perspective of ethics,solutions to future problems were explored.
