<!-- 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/AI-Tech Doomerism and Anti-Science Panic|AI-Tech Doomerism, Anti-Science Panic, those 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 -->