@article{8051573ca1f1435f82a0139873b29ebd,
title = "Neurotechnology and ethics guidelines for human enhancement: The case of the hippocampal cognitive prosthesis",
abstract = "Neurotechnologies offer both therapeutic and enhancement potential. In this article, we demonstrate how ethics guidelines can help with critical reflection on their potential for enhancement. We do this through the case of the hippocampal cognitive prosthesis. This prothesis developed in the US, has primarily therapeutic ends, with scope for enhancement. This technology raises several ethical issues, including as related to identity and memory, autonomy and authenticity. In the first section, we outline what we mean by enhancement, and introduce neurotechnologies generally and the hippocampal cognitive prosthesis specifically, with an introduction to generally relevant ethical issues. In the second section, we outline ethical issues pertinent to the hippocampal cognitive prosthesis and explore how ethics guidelines can help to promote essential critical reflection on a technology like this. Through all this, our emphasis is to balance between technological optimism and caution, especially where technologies have enhancement potential.",
keywords = "augmentation, cognitive prosthesis, ethics, human enhancement, identity, memory, neurotechnology, UT-Hybrid-D",
author = "Erden, {Yasemin J.} and Philip Brey",
note = "Funding Information: Yasemin J. Erden and Philip Brey were the principal authors of the SIENNA guidelines discussed in this article. SIENNA was funded under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement no. 741716). This article and its contents reflect only the work of SIENNA and do not intend to reflect the views of the European Commission. The European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains. The authors wish to thank neuroscientist Nick Ramsey for informative discussion of this technology, though all content and any errors in this article remain our own. An earlier discussion of the hippocampal cognitive prosthesis by Erden was published online in November 2011. 4 32 Funding Information: Yasemin J. Erden and Philip Brey were the principal authors of the SIENNA guidelines4 discussed in this article. SIENNA was funded under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement no. 741716). This article and its contents reflect only the work of SIENNA and do not intend to reflect the views of the European Commission. The European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains. The authors wish to thank neuroscientist Nick Ramsey for informative discussion of this technology, though all content and any errors in this article remain our own. An earlier discussion of the hippocampal cognitive prosthesis by Erden was published online in November 2011.32 Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 The Authors. Artificial Organs published by International Center for Artificial Organ and Transplantation (ICAOT) and Wiley Periodicals LLC.",
year = "2023",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1111/aor.14615",
language = "English",
volume = "47",
pages = "1235--1241",
journal = "Artificial organs",
issn = "0160-564X",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "8",
}