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Academic publications, public writing, and preprints exploring the ethical dimensions of emerging technologies.

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Oxford Open Neuroscience

BCI Tool Use & the Contemplation Conundrum: Mental Action, Agency & Control

“Under some theories of intentional action, certain BCI-mediated overt movements qualify as both voluntary and unintentional. This plausibly magnifies the ethical considerations surrounding BCI tool use.”

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arXiv Preprint

Belief Offloading in Human-AI Interaction

“People's processes of forming and upholding beliefs are offloaded onto an AI system with downstream consequences on their behavior and the nature of their system of beliefs.”

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BBC Future

Why Neuralink's Brain Implant Reframes Our Ideas of Self-Identity

When a device reads and writes directly to the brain, the boundary between self and tool begins to dissolve — forcing a fundamental rethinking of personal identity and autonomy.

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Cambridge Journal of AI

Artificial Creativity & the Incomplete Aesthetic Experience

Exploring the phenomenological dimensions of creativity that computational systems lack — the “what it is like-ness” that grounds authentic artistic expression in lived experience.

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