<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # BCI critics love discussing hypothetical future... > BCI critics love discussing hypothetical future violations of autonomy while strangely overlooking the autonomy being restored today. A person who cannot move, type, or speak does not possess some pristine freedom merely because nobody has implanted an electrode. Restoring the capacity to communicate is also autonomy. Restoring control is also autonomy. Any neuroethics worthy of the name has to count the freedoms technology creates alongside the freedoms technology might threaten. **Source:** [[articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]], [[research/AI-Tech Doomers Publication/preimages/2026-09-17-article-route/articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “BCI critics love discussing hypothetical future violations of autonomy while strangely overlooking the autonomy being restored today. A person who cannot move, type, or speak does not possess some pristine freedom merely because nobody has implanted an electrode. Restoring the capacity to communicate is also autonomy. Restoring control is also autonomy. Any neuroethics worthy of the name has to count the freedoms technology creates alongside the freedoms technology might threaten.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-bci-critics-love-technology-might-threaten ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->