This study offers unprecedented hope for speech impaired patients. Not only will brain chips be able to decode inner thoughts, but they also show promise for restoring natural speech in people with paralysis. By translating brain activity into near-real-time voice, bypassing physical barriers, these inventions could one day let patients speak fluently again.
While curing speech paralysis is undeniably a good thing, brain-computer interfaces could also be exploited for surveillance or manipulation. Past abuses, like Cold War mind-control experiments, show how decoding or altering thoughts could threaten mental privacy and autonomy.
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