Neural Implants Could Let Hackers Hijack Your Brain

Sooner or later, most human beings will be inseparable from the technology they use. Neural implants — small computers or devices that interface directly with neurons in the brain — aren’t a widespread reality yet, but the technology exists and the ground is laid for our brains to sync up with machines in the near future.

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But where there are computers, there are computer hackers, and experts say the proliferation of neural implants and other symbiotic devices like pacemakers and cochlear implants opens up new risks for augmented humans.

On July 26, the Pew Research Center released a study on how Americans believe science and technology will affect human performance in the future. In short: Americans are terrified of biotechnology’s negative potential. Pew found more people were worried than enthusiastic about physical enhancements like gene editing, brain chip implants, and synthetic blood.

A 50-year-old woman in Phoenix went so far as to suggest that technology is making humans too much like robots.

“Are we becoming robots, is that what the whole society’s going to become?” She asked. “And then pretty soon someone will hack the computer system that you hook up to and throw a little virus in your brain and then what? You lose your identity as a person.”

Surprisingly, the woman from Arizona may have touched on the truth. We may not have full-on “headjacks” like Neo did in The Matrix in 1999, but some biotechnology advances are getting us close.

https://www.inverse.com/article/19148-neural-implants-could-let-hackers-hijack-your-brain

Neural Implants Could Let Hackers Hijack Your Brain

Neural Implants Could Let Hackers Hijack Your Brain

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