On January 28, 2024, the world’s first **brain chip** was implanted. The news comes directly from Elon Musk, owner of the company that produces the chip: *“The first human received an implant from Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well. Initial results show promising neuron spike detection.”* The Neuralink implant is **a brain-computer interface** (BCI) that aims to capture and analyze neurons through electrodes that physically penetrate the patient’s brain. Neuroscientists have long recognized that acquiring the signals that come directly from neurons is the secret to decoding human thought. Neuralink promises miracles for quadriplegic people, who will be able to use devices and computers with their thoughts. However, it is not the only company involved in neurotechnology. A European **research project** ([chiamato Brain2Pix](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2022.940972/full)) promises for example to develop machine-learning algorithms capable of **reconstructing the images** seen by a person through analysis of his **brain data**. Another, instead, tries to reconstruct dreams, through a “*neural decoding*” activity he even tries to reconstruct the [sogni delle persone](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncom.2017.00004/full). Last year with a brain implant and AI, [una donna ha riacquistato la voce](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNGBon2wGog) (artificial) after 18 years. According to **Yuval Noah Harari**, Israeli historian and philosopher and author of *Homo Deus*, we risk that **artificial intelligence** could falsify our own reality, starting from the most classic “*deep fakes* ” online until we arrive at the reality itself that surrounds us. On the other hand, with a chip implanted in the brain, there is no limit to the possibilities. We are getting ever closer to the day in which the notion of privacy – understood as everything that concerns the sphere of private and personal life – will inevitably have to include **also the mind and thoughts**, not just communications, transactions and actions performed both offline and online. Furthermore, it seems that the 21st century could mark a change of pace towards true **Transhumanism**. How do you position yourself? Is there a “moral” limit to technological evolution and the risks that we are willing to accept, or not?
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