The Download: mind implant removing, and Nvidia’s AI payoff

Leggett advised researchers that she “grew to become one” together with her machine. It helped her to regulate the unpredictable, violent seizures she routinely skilled, and allowed her to take cost of her personal life. So she was devastated when, two years later, she was advised she needed to take away the implant as a result of the corporate that made it had gone bust.

The removing of this implant, and others prefer it, may characterize a breach of human rights, ethicists say in a paper printed earlier this month. And the difficulty will solely grow to be extra urgent because the mind implant market grows within the coming years and extra folks obtain units like Leggett’s. Read the full story.

—Jessica Hamzelou

You can learn extra about what occurs to sufferers when their life-changing mind implants are eliminated in opposition to their needs within the latest issue of The Checkup, Jessica’s weekly publication supplying you with the within observe on all issues biotech. Sign up to obtain it in your inbox each Thursday.

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