US military has been working on artificial intelligence for some times now.  Recently they have developed a chip that will be implanted to human brain and will be will use to change a person’s mood ! It is in testing stage now. If successful, then this chip can be use to treat number of mental health conditions. Which is awesome!

One good thing – researchers won’t be able to read people’s minds with this chip (yet).

The Developers

The chip is the work of DARPA or Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency a section of US’s Department of Defense. Whose main work is to develops new technology for the military. Two other American university University of California (UC) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) also has been working with DARPA in this project. Together they have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm that will detect the pattern of mood.

How it works

This technology has been tested on people who has epilepsy. These people already have electrodes implanted in their brains that track their seizures. This chip has been incorporated with that implant. The chip’s AI algorithm will then monitor the brain activity for one to three weeks. That gives data to create an algorithm to understand the moods pattern.

Once the AI algorithm understand the pattern – it can then detect the normal and abnormal pattern. So when abnormal pattern is detected – the CHIP can give a shock to the patient’s brain and bring it back to a normal pattern automatically.

The study data gives enough information to the researcher – that they can even shock the regions of the brain that deals with decision making and emotions. Result – test subjects take the right decision for a particular tusk.

Who are the test subjects

This technology has been tested on people who have epilepsy, as epilepsy cause very bad seizure.

Problems

Through these AI chip and electrodes, the researchers can track what is happening in the brain. They can also  use the chips to stimulate a brain. And that create the first problem. This AI chip gives the researcher the ability to stimulate the brain’s “specific” region to do a “specific” tusk. This can be defines as the first steps towards mind
control.

And the following bad thing can be done using these technology-

• Using this AI chip – military can create mindless soldier who will do anything without thinking.
• Bad politicians can “program” the chip to control the mass population. So people will always have a warm
  feeling when the politician appears on television or in public. Result bad politician will be able to do anything they want.

Conclusion

This technology has open a window on the brain that will help the researcher to understand what is happening inthe brain when someone relapses. It will help “fix” many many brain functionality related disorder.  The possibility is endless – if this technology is used properly.

Rubayat M.