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Publication Date:
January 2011
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1941-6008
DOI:
10.2202/1941-6008.1153

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Brain-Machine Interfaces and Personal Responsibility for Action - Maybe Not As Complicated After All

Søren Holm / Teck Chuan Voo

1University of Manchester

1University of Manchester

Citation Information: Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology. Volume 4, Issue 3, Pages –, ISSN (Online) 1941-6008, DOI: 10.2202/1941-6008.1153, January 2011

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Published Online:
2011-01-27

This comment responds to Kevin Warwick’s article on predictability and responsibility with respect to brain-machine interfaces (BMI) in action. It compares conventional responsibility for device use with the potential consequences of phenomenological human-machine integration which obscures the causal chain of an act. It explores two senses of “responsibility”: 1) when it is attributed to a person, suggesting the morally important way in which the person is a causal agent, and 2) when a person is accountable and, on the basis of fairness about rewards and sanctions, has a duty to act responsibly and accept liability. The comment suggests that, in the absence of absolute knowledge and predictability, we continue to engage in practical forms of reasoning about the responsibility for BMI-use in ways which are inclusive of uncertainties about the liability of persons versus devices and those who create them.

Keywords: brain-machine interface; intention; responsibility; liability

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