<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # A brain-computer interface is easy to demonize... > A brain-computer interface is easy to demonize when your muscles obey you. The abstraction changes rather quickly when a human being who cannot speak can convert intended speech into audible language through a machine. Suddenly the sinister ‘brain chip’ becomes something much more ancient and recognizable: a person trying to speak to another person. Technology looks very different when ideology has to stare directly at the disability it proposes leaving untreated. **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 ``` “A brain-computer interface is easy to demonize when your muscles obey you. The abstraction changes rather quickly when a human being who cannot speak can convert intended speech into audible language through a machine. Suddenly the sinister ‘brain chip’ becomes something much more ancient and recognizable: a person trying to speak to another person. Technology looks very different when ideology has to stare directly at the disability it proposes leaving untreated.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-brain-computer-interface-proposes-leaving-untreated ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->