The Marriage of Neurotechnologies and Artificial Intelligence: Ethical, regulatory, and technological aspects

The dual concepts of neurotechnology and artificial intelligence (AI) form an intriguing but also potentially explosive mixture because of its many ethical and legal implications. The advent of AI and the progress in neurotechnologies are reshaping the landscape not only in all scientific fields but also in everyday life both individually and collectively, ushering in a new era where the centrality, integrity and identity of humans is no longer a fact. Such tumultuous progress has implications at all levels, individual, societal, economical and political. Without the pretension of exploring the whole set of relevant aspects, we aim at providing a multi-disciplinary view on the main ethical, legal and societal issues stemming from neurotechnology and AI, by assessing them using keywords like trustworthiness, fairness, awareness, security, and privacy. In this paper, we propose an overview on the current scenario, taking a philosophical perspective in the light of ethics, and boiling it down to aspects closely related to the technological developments and the regulatory measures that are currently in-place and called for.