Addressing the Ethical, Legal, Social, and Cultural Implications of Neurotechnology

As part of our effort to support the neuroengineering community, the IEEE Brain Neuroethics Subcommittee is developing a neuroethical framework for evaluating the ethical, legal, social, and cultural issues that may arise with the deployment of such neurotechnologies.

Find more information on the IEEE Neuroethics Framework HERE. 

The IEEE Brain neuroethical framework is organized as a matrix of specific types of contemporary neurotechnologies and their current and potential applications. In this framework, the columns represent different types of neurotechnologies, and the rows represent applications of these technologies.

IEEE Brain is in the process of developing documentation that supports this matrix by providing examples of existing neurotechnologies and exploring the ethical, legal, social, and cultural issues generated by a particular neurotechnology when used in specific contexts. Below is a general introduction of the overall efforts and a summary of each of the working groups and the scope of their efforts.

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