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Brain-implant companies balk at moves to regulate their nascent tech
Los Angeles Times ^ | 2/19/2023 | Sarah McBride

Posted on 02/19/2023 7:41:16 AM PST by Right Wing Vegan

Marcus Gerhardt, chief executive officer of Salt Lake City-based Blackrock Neurotech, said that in particular, curbs on access to chip manufacturers in China could limit BCI development.

“It would hamper a nascent industry,” Gerhardt said. “It would break its neck, quite frankly, if we were not able to access these production sites.”

China has deployed considerable resources to artificial intelligence and brain-computer interfaces, including a brain project with goals that include military applications. In the United States, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Intelligent Neural Interfaces program is exploring concepts including allowing troops to control weapons with their brains.

BCIs are considered a dual-use technology, meaning they have consumer applications along with military. For that reason, they are subject to regulation from the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Standards, and could one day be subject to export controls.

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1 posted on 02/19/2023 7:41:16 AM PST by Right Wing Vegan
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Well shucky darn! The po’widdle Twanshumanists may be incovenced.


2 posted on 02/19/2023 7:46:07 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Doc every time I use my garage door opener my arms extend and eyes blink real fast.


3 posted on 02/19/2023 7:49:54 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: Right Wing Vegan

This is a dangerous slippery slope, especially in the hands of these brainwashed emotionless “greenies”. Not content with sabotaging our food factories, restricting our fossil fuel supplies, poisoning us with fake “vaccines”, etc., now they want to get right to it and implant brain controls. No thanks!


4 posted on 02/19/2023 7:50:55 AM PST by EinNYC
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To: Right Wing Vegan

5 posted on 02/19/2023 7:51:58 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Can’t regulate this.

How are we gonna get the required help for Fetterman.


6 posted on 02/19/2023 7:56:42 AM PST by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

“It would hamper a nascent industry,” Gerhardt said. “It would break its neck, quite frankly”, said CEO Dr. Frankenstein.


7 posted on 02/19/2023 7:59:32 AM PST by silent majority rising
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Don’t just “regulate” them. They are traitors against their species and should be treated accordingly.


8 posted on 02/19/2023 8:03:20 AM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Right Wing Vegan

I see nothing in my copy of the Constitution that says the government should have anything to do with regulating this.


9 posted on 02/19/2023 8:52:59 AM PST by Aeneas2112 (YOU are your own first responder)
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To: Aeneas2112

Check the commerce clause.


10 posted on 02/19/2023 9:32:14 AM PST by Right Wing Vegan (Pot legalization licenses every degenerate pothead piece of trash to force drug neighbors.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

“...Brain-implant companies...”

This isn’t going to end well.


11 posted on 02/19/2023 9:58:25 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Rurudyne

Well you have to trust us we’re a tech company 😁


12 posted on 02/19/2023 12:14:39 PM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: rottweiller_inc

Tech companies make stuff that sit on your desk, not that go in your head.


13 posted on 02/19/2023 12:28:18 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Rurudyne

And Bill Gates wonders why people think he’s evil


14 posted on 02/19/2023 3:21:16 PM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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