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topicnews · September 21, 2024

Health tracking: Chip implant conceivable for many

Health tracking: Chip implant conceivable for many

Health tracking with AI technology: Almost 44 percent of the 25- to 34-year-olds surveyed are in favor of monitoring vital data using AI.

Source: Colourbox.de

Smartwatches measure your resting heart rate, count steps and calories burned, and calculate sleep duration and phases. How reliable this health data is varies depending on the model and application. One thing is certain: the desire and demand for technical aids for self-optimization or self-monitoring – for example for the early detection of diseases – is great. What sounded like science fiction yesterday is now reality. And: many people apparently want more.

Chip implant: High approval among men

More than four out of ten young adults can imagine having a chip implanted that monitors their health in real time and has the data evaluated by an AI. This is shown by a representative survey of the 25 to 34 age group, which the ZDF shows on the topic of “AI – the new reality?”.

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The level of approval was particularly high among men: half of those surveyed could imagine a chip implant. Among women, the figure was only 36 percent.
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“I think it is not unlikely that in ten to 20 years, technology implants will even be used as status symbols for one’s own physical superiority,” explains IT legal expert Dennis-Kenji Kipker.

The figures suggest that young adults have a certain level of confidence that highly individualized technology can improve their own lives. They also suggest that they have the will to use technology to optimize themselves and gain advantages over others.

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Source: ZDF

… is a professor of IT security law at the University of Bremen. The IT expert conducts research at the interface between law and technology. Kipker is also the scientific director of the “cyberintelligence.institute” in Frankfurt am Main and advises the German government and the EU Commission.

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Neuralink: Brain chip implanted in two patients

Tracking health data and evaluating it using AI: The vision of the US tech company Neuralink – founded by Elon Musk, among others – goes far beyond this. The start-up’s brain implant is intended to make it possible to operate a smartphone using only thoughts.
A clinical study is already underway. Two patients with paraplegia have had the brain chip implanted. Patient Alex underwent surgery at the end of August: According to Neuralink, the procedure was successful and Alex used the chip to play video games and design 3D objects, among other things.

Musk recently said in a podcast with computer scientist Lex Friedman that they want to give people “superpowers.” According to reports, thousands of people have expressed interest in a Neuralink chip.

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Objective AI: “Dangerous fallacy”

A great deal of trust in new technologies is also evident in the representative survey conducted by ZDF among young adults. Almost half of those surveyed said that they would rather entrust their data to an AI than a human. 45.4 percent of 25- to 34-year-olds completely agreed, agreed or rather agreed with the statement “I would rather entrust my data to an AI than a human.”

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Given the newness of this technology, this is surprising, explains Dennis-Kenji Kipker: “AI is assumed to have a certain objectivity in dealing with personal data, detached from human entrepreneurial self-interest.” But this is a dangerous fallacy, explains Kipker, “because in the past there have regularly been unauthorized leaks on the Internet, even for data managed by AI.”

Last but not least, it has been shown that AIs are repeatedly vulnerable to targeted manipulation in order to reveal stored data.

Dennis-Kenji Kipker, Professor of IT Security Law

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AI is also usually operated by profit-oriented companies whose business model is data analysis, Kipker adds.

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