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Sample, Matthew, Sattler, Sebastian ORCID: 0000-0002-6491-0754, Blain-Moraes, Stefanie, Rodriguez-Arias, David ORCID: 0000-0002-4555-5259 and Racine, Eric (2020). Do Publics Share Experts' Concerns about Brain-Computer Interfaces? A Trinational Survey on the Ethics of Neural Technology. Sci. Technol. Hum. Values, 45 (6). S. 1242 - 1271. THOUSAND OAKS: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC. ISSN 1552-8251

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Abstract

Since the 1960s, scientists, engineers, and healthcare professionals have developed brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies, connecting the user's brain activity to communication or motor devices. This new technology has also captured the imagination of publics, industry, and ethicists. Academic ethics has highlighted the ethical challenges of BCIs, although these conclusions often rely on speculative or conceptual methods rather than empirical evidence or public engagement. From a social science or empirical ethics perspective, this tendency could be considered problematic and even technocratic because of its disconnect from publics. In response, our trinational survey (Germany, Canada, and Spain) reports public attitudes toward BCIs (N = 1,403) on ethical issues that were carefully derived from academic ethics literature. The results show moderately high levels of concern toward agent-related issues (e.g., changing the user's self) and consequence-related issues (e.g., new forms of hacking). Both facets of concern were higher among respondents who reported as female or as religious, while education, age, own and peer disability, and country of residence were associated with either agent-related or consequence-related concerns. These findings provide a first look at BCI attitudes across three national contexts, suggesting that the language and content of academic BCI ethics may resonate with some publics and their values.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Sample, Matthew UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Sattler, Sebastian UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-6491-0754 UNSPECIFIED Blain-Moraes, Stefanie UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Rodriguez-Arias, David UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-4555-5259 UNSPECIFIED Racine, Eric UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-131187
DOI:	10.1177/0162243919879220
Journal or Publication Title:	Sci. Technol. Hum. Values
Volume:	45
Number:	6
Page Range:	S. 1242 - 1271
Date:	2020
Publisher:	SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Place of Publication:	THOUSAND OAKS
ISSN:	1552-8251
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language USERS WANT OPINIONS; POTENTIAL USERS; SCIENCE; PERCEPTIONS; PRIORITIES; ATTITUDES; PEOPLE; GENDER; NEUROTECHNOLOGIES; PARTICIPATION Multiple languages Social Issues Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/13118