# The Future Is Now: Wrestling With Ethics, Policy And Brain-Computer Interfaces

## Overview

**Authors:** Matt Shipman

**Publication Date:** 28 April 2023

**Link:** <https://news.ncsu.edu/2023/04/ethics-brain-computer-interfaces/>

**Keywords:** Brain-computer interfaces, neuroethics, policy and regulation, neural data privacy, informed consent, authonomy and personhood, commercialization and consumer neurotech, implantable vs. noinvavsive BCIs, brain-to-brain interfaces, human-AI symbiosis

**Type:**  Articles/Reports

## Summary

Devices that allow computers to interface with the human brain are already here – close to 200,000 people have cochlear implants in the U.S. alone. And a wide range of additional brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies are in development. As these technologies become more common, so do questions related to ethics and policy – with agencies from the Federal Trade Commission to the FDA already facing regulatory decisions about BCI devices.