Although brain chips are not yet at a stage where healthy individuals would benefit from them, they do have potential in improving deteriorating health. Another potential use might be that future criminals could be monitored by chips in their brains, according to experts.
Legal theorists are bracing for a time when brain chips and augmented individuals will be widely adopted.
The topic of neurotechnology focuses on equipping electronic equipment for integration with the nervous system.
In a paper for The Law Society, Dr. Allan McCay proposed that courts may order criminals to accept microchips for behavior tracking or control while wargaming the potential effects of neurotechnology on the law.
"The political conditions might emerge for seeing neurotechnology as a broader solution to crime might come into place," McCay wrote.
Contrarily, a criminal might utilize brain-chip implantation as a defense against punishment.
"An offender, with expert witness support, mig...
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