Tackling Inequality in Neural-Digital Technology

  • Published22 Jan 2020
  • Source BrainFacts/SfN

The latest neural-digital technologies offer exciting advancements in healthcare, but they also could worsen existing inequalities in society. David Hodge, a bioethicist at Tuskegee University’s National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care, discusses socioeconomic considerations for expanding biotechnology in a responsible, inclusive way.

This video is part of a series on Neural-Digital Interfaces, presented at Neuroscience 2019 for the Social Issues Roundtable.

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