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How does brain-computer interface technology present challenges for labour law in New Zealand?
Peter Upson (2021)
Electronic version URL: https://journals.openedition.org/rdctss/2600 DOI: 10.4000/rdctss.2600
"Neuralink hopes to use its microchips to treat conditions such as paralysis and blindness, and to help certain disabled people use computers and mobile technology. The chips - which have been tested in monkeys - are designed to interpret signals produced in the brain and relay information to devices via Bluetooth."
"ABSTRACT There is a disheartening narrative regarding the future of work found in some publications. It is that automation will replace workers in industrial and service sector unions relatively soon and artificial intelligence will replace knowledge workers in public sector unions such as teachers, nurses and public servants. Recent announcements of technological breakthroughs have challenged this disheartening narrative. Neuralink recently debuted polymer threads that could be inserted into brains allowing them to control certain computer functions. Rather than human workers being replaced by machines, brain-computer interfaces could allow them to have a symbiotic workplace relationship. Human workers could have access to the physical power of robots and the intellectual power of artificial general intelligence. However, while this brain-computer interface technology provides hope for those concerned about impending job loss it still poses significant legal challenges. This paper will focus on the three most pressing –the potential for discrimination against workers unable or unwilling to accept neural-prosthetics, the privacy of workers, and the prospect of compulsion by machines."
"Elon Musk the founder of Tesla and SpaceX made an announcement describing a new technology developed by his company Neuralink. Neuralink has successfully created brain scanning polymer threads and a machine to implant them into human brains . These threads measure 10 to 40 microns in width which makes them thinner than a human hair . Importantly they are so thin that they can « penetrate brain tissue without puncturing blood vessels » . These threads will be connected to a small chip that will be implanted into the skull . The threads will be inserted using a surgical robot that resembles a sewing machine . This robotic insertion technique also decreases the chance that blood vessels will be damaged by thread insertion. Neuralink claims that the final product could have as many as 1000 threads and 10 chips . In addition, Neuralink is working on a way to insert the threads using a laser instead of a surgical robot which will reduce the surgical footprint and pain caused by the insertion. Neuralink presented data from its animal trials showing that it had increased data transfer rates ten times more than any other conventional BCI sensors . When Elon Musk first discussed the idea of launching a BCI company he said it was « motivated by his concerns about AI ending up hostile to humans: providing humans with an interface directly into the AI’s home turf might prevent hostilities from developing » . At the recent announcement of this new technology he was quoted as saying he was trying to « achieve a sort of symbiosis with artificial intelligence » . In 2017 Facebook announced that it was developing wearable BCI technology to allow people to type with their thoughts. In 2019 in an interview at Harvard University Mark Zuckerberg eagerly expounded on this research. He related how brain scan reading technology allows a computer to distinguish if a person is thinking of an elephant or a giraffe. Facebooks BCI would use similar techniques . A person would imagine themselves speaking and the words would appear on the computer. In addition to this Facebook also bought a BCI company called CTRL in 2019 at a price rumoured to be in the high hundreds of millions. This company manufactures small wristbands that record the electrical impulses in muscle fibre and renders them as actions on a computer screen."
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