Dr. Avinash Singh, a researcher, working at the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute at the University of Technology, Sydney, participates in Risk Roundup to discuss his research on Brain-Computer Interfaces.
The Research Trends In Brain-Computer Interface
Over the years, we have created tools that helped us to interact with the world around us. Now, we are developing the tools to help us interact with the world inside us. So, as the nature of tools has moved beyond from physical to digital, and now neural—our brain is effectively becoming the tool for interaction, communication, influence, and surveillance.
While the transformative innovations of the smartphone, the Internet, social media platforms, and more have changed the world through their respective uses, they are perhaps only a stepping-stone on the path to plugging our brains directly into the web. Although the primary brain-computer interface system has been there for years, there is now a rat race to develop the next generation of the brain-computer interface.
Understanding Brain To Computer Interfaces
Brain-to-computer interfaces are understood to be communication systems that enable a human user to send commands to connected computers through brain signals alone. The connected computers that receive brain signals then read those signals and perform various tasks commanded by the human user. A brain-computer interface (BCI) is also an artificial intelligence system that can recognize a certain set of patterns in brain signals (through hardware and software communications systems) that permits cerebral (brain) activity alone to control connected computers or external devices/machines. Such brain-computer interfaces that are connected to AI would also mean that our actions will flow less from our own judgments and thoughts on what is in our best interests and more from what data and algorithms have decided is best for us.
We are close to commercially available BCIs that human patients can use. In addition, disabled individuals will also be able to control smart devices. They are now one step closer to becoming a reality. Research and development at the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute and elsewhere gives us a promise of applications beyond the production of rehabilitative and assistive devices. New applications will likely emerge that will constantly keep us connected to the Internet. It will also ultimately connect our brains to develop the brain net as well.
When these brain-computer interfaces would enable us to operate connected devices and even human body parts simply by thought, at the same time, the command flow can be in the opposite direction as well. Hackers can hack into our brains, causing enormous security implications. So, the question is whether we are prepared for the outside world to get into our brains and our brains to get into the outside world without filters and controls.
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About the Guest
Avinash Singh is a researcher working at the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute at the University of Technology Sydney. He works at the intersection of machine learning, cognitive neuroscience, signal processing to design and develop real-world brain-computer interface (BCI) systems. In addition to primary research in BCI, he also actively support and advocate Transhumanism.
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