- Föreningen för hjärnans integritet i Sverige
Surveillance – Integrity and Autonomy
The Swedish Data Inspection Board. Ubiquitous Computing
Sep 13th
If you say “Ubicomp”, many laughs and thinks of intelligent fridge. But the phenomenon should not be underestimated. For years, IT industry in the U.S., EU and Japan spent astronomical sums on development. People and equipment are bound together in a giant wireless network, it is intended, and it could More >
Statement by the Swedish Research Institute of Defence at the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce 2012 03 21
May 1st
The art of creating machines with ethical behaviour is something that robot scientists and philosophers have started to study.
What part has man to play in a future, in which ethical decisions will be taken also by machines?
When will a machine become a human being?
The question of borderlines between man and More >
Sweden and USA Agreement in Science-Technology for Homeland Secqurity Matters
May 1st
AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF SWEDEN ON COOPERATION IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR HOMELAND SECURITY MATTERS
Preamble
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF SWEDEN (hereinafter referred to as the “Parties”): More >
Chips Coming to a Brain Near You
Apr 23rd
The hippocampus of the intact brain (left) receives neural impulses from the environment. The microchip (right), which may be able to help humans build long-term memories, processes the signals from the brain as electrical impulses and sends them back into the hippocampus.
In this era of high-tech memory management, next in More >
Army developing ‘synthetic telepathy’
Apr 3rd
Read This Thought: The U.S. Army is developing a technology known as synthetic telepathy that would allow someone to create email or voice mail and send it by thought alone. The concept is based on reading electrical activity in the brain using an electroencephalograph, or EEG.
Vocal cords were overrated anyway. More >
University of Oxford:Practical Ethics: Non-lethal, yet dangerous: neuroactive agents
Apr 2nd
University of Oxford
An article and editorial in Nature warns about the militarization of agents that alter mental states. While traditional chemical weapons are intended to hurt or kill people, these agents are intended to disable. For example, they might induce confusion, sleepiness or calm. The Chemical Weapons Convention contain a More >
EU Etica – Ethical evaluation
Mar 29th
Ethics in Science and New Technologies
Because ICT implants in the human body go along with the tendency to commercialize the human body and treat humans as objects or as biomechanical platform, implants are considered as a potential threat to human dignity in some contexts.
This document deals with the evaluation of More >
Human Body Area Network
Mar 28th
A Body Area Network (BAN), Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) or Body sensor network (BSN) are terms used to describe the application of wearable computing devices.[1][2][3] This will enable wireless communication between several miniaturized Body Sensor Units (BSU) and a single Body Central Unit (BCU) worn at the human body.[4][5] The development of WBAN More >
Robots Get Closer to Humans-2005 IEEE International Conference
Mar 28th
Ethical issues involved in hybrid bionicsystems research
2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
“What kind of privacy safeguards are needed if a machine can read your thoughts”?
“Invasive research on humans could involve inhuman or degrading procedures” “Invasive research on humans could lead to new torture or inhumane punishment techniques”
Will More >
Computer – Brain – Interaction
Feb 3rd
Brain- Computer- Interaction
Development of BCI-AI (Brain-Computer-Interaction and Artificial Intelligence)
Research and development going on in secret. Ethical debates and legislation is nonexistent.
The lack of facts in this matter creates naive ideas about the safe development of
BCI-AI.
The researchers put the lid on the public debate on the subject More >
The Swedish Data Inspection Board – Ubiquitous Computing – IPv6 and UWB Ultra Wideband
Feb 3rd
The Swedish Data Inspection Board
The Data Inspection Board is a public authority. Our task is to protect the individual’s privacy in the information society without unnecessarily preventing or complicating the use of new technology.
Ubiquitous Computing – A vision that can become reality – Invisible “computers”, everywhere, in all things, always More >
Distributed network, wireless and cloud computing
Feb 2nd
Distributed network, wireless and cloud computing enabled 3-D ultrasound; a new medical technology paradigm.
Meir A, Rubinsky B.
Center for Bioengineering in the Service of Humanity and Society, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. arie.coach@gmail.com
Abstract
Medical technologies are indispensable to modern medicine. However, they have become More >
