Abstract

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract also in English. The ethical issues associated with brain–computer interface technology are mainly related to the development and application of artificial intelligence (AI), with the complexity of this problem and various worrying possibilities linked to AI’s inherent uncertainty. If AI remains under the overall control of human beings, especially if it is used only as a tool to serve people, the subject status of human beings in the world will not change, and traditional bioethical principles and conceptual systems can be used to analyze the ethical problems caused by this technology. However, if AI has the ability to use human reasoning or go beyond human reasoning, thereby subverting human subjectivity, traditional bioethics do not apply in the field. The possible problems and complexity of the ethics of brain–computer interface will depend on the extent of AI development. To ensure the continued relevance of bioethics to the field of technology, bioethicists today need to focus on how humans should regulate the development of AI.