I think the real danger lies in how many will accept that output as the unadulterated unmistakable truth for actions, for judgment. Talk about a sinister device.

Split brain experiments show that a person rationalizes and accommodates their own behavior even when "they" didn't choose to perform an action[1]. I wonder if ML-based implants which extrapolate behavior from CNS signals may actually drive behavior that a person wouldn't intrinsically choose, yet the person accommodates that behavior as coming from their own free will.

[1]: "The interpreter" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-brain_interpreter

From some dystopic device log:

    [alert] Pre-thought match blacklist: 7f314541-abad-4df0-b22b-daa6003bdd43
    [debug] Perceived injustice, from authority, in-person
    [info]  Resolution path: eaa6a1ea-a9aa-42dd-b9c6-2ec40aa6b943
    [debug] Generate positive vague memory of past encounter

Not a reason to stop trying to help people with spinal damage, obviously, but a danger to avoid.

I wonder how much this experience is similar to the Alien Hand Syndrome, where people experience that part of their body, usually a hand, act on their own.

Our ideas of luxury might seem primitive to upcoming generations where machines of loving grace satisfy every need and most wants before we're aware of them. What a terrifying utopia.

It's interesting that the path from 'decide to do something' to performing the action is hundreds of ms long. It's also interesting that grabbing the data early in the process and acting on it can perform the action before the conscious 'self' understands fully that the action will take place. It's just another reminder that the 'you' that you consider to be running the show is really just a thin translation layer on top of an ocean of instinct, emotion, and hormones that is the real 'you'.