Brain Augmentation Bill of Rights
- status: draft
- history:
- initial statements: Micah Redding
- initial idea: Daniel Redding, Jared Kohler
- updates from:
- directions: Add potential statements to the bottom of the list. Comment underneath each statement with support, constructive critique, or alternate versions.
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Proposed statements
- Legal Agency
- A person has a right to augment their brain in ways that they deem healthy and desirable.
- Brain augmentation technology must be legally classified as an aspect of the subject’s body.
- As such, hardware, software, and on-device data, may not be subject to unreasonable search and seizure.
- Technological Agency
- The user must be able to turn off or disconnect the device, at the level of both software and hardware.
- The technology must only initiate outgoing connection at user request.
- Neither the hardware nor the software needed to operate basic functions may be capable of being remotely disabled.
- The technology must reveal any ongoing connections to the outside world. The technology must maintain a user-accessible record of any such interactions.
- Biological Agency
- The right of removal
- The right of disconnection
- The right of upgrade
- The right to be informed about the technological life-cycle
- The right to be informed about the biological ramifications
- Legal Agency
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Additional proposed statements?
- Transparency of brain augmentation service providers capabilities
- Brain Augmentation Bill of Rights
- Brain Augmentation Bill of Rights
- Brain Augmentation Bill of Rights
- Brain Augmentation Bill of Rights
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