Conspiracies aside, at least ethics professors are speaking up. Until they get silenced, mwahahaaha.

I don’t know why they say this. They can do this right now. I mean, today. No need to wait for the future. Obviously if a monkey can control a mechanical arm with its brain, you can wire a human to do the same thing. And the monkey did that about a decade ago.

An XBox controller has about 20 basic functions (more once you add in the joystick directions). Ok. So you need to wire up 20 neurons in the brain to correspond to each of these functions. You interface it with a HUD or contact lens projection screen or full face visor. You develop software that translates the basic commands from the controller into more complex effects (like how the controller does different things in different games) and then you can use the wired in the brain controller to interface with a vast array of devices- flying drones, remote combat vehicles, sentry robots, sniper/stalker robots- a whole army of Robo-Joes. Maybe wire up 3 dozen more neurons for a basic qwerty keyboard. You’d train it the same way you trained yourself to type. Now, you don’t think about where the letters are on the keyboard, you just think the word and your fingers do it for you. The same with gamers- they don’t think ‘Need to hit the X button’.

They could do it now. Today. They could so do this. It just requires invasive surgery. I guarantee there is someone out there who would do this if asked nicely ;-)