The article (and, indeed, the ethicists who are quoted) quite rightly raise the phenomenon of “rights inflation” – the current tendency to classify anything that one considers morally desirable as a human right.

I don’t know that their approach is necessarily the best one, but I do commend the fact that they’re starting to think about these issues. As the lead researcher says, in the closing sentence of the piece: “It’s always too early to assess a technology until it’s suddenly too late.”

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4 New Human Rights for When Our Brains Are Hooked Up to Computers

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