Romanian Expert Touches on ‘Military Readiness and Sustainable Development’

“It is imperative to foster a deeper understanding of neuro-technology, the problems and debates arising from its use in national security and defense, and how such issues can and should be addressed. In doing so, we can guide and govern the use of these innovative neuro-technologies in ways that uphold ethical accountability.

Neuro-augumentation is the use for non-medical (for non-curative purposes) of psychoactive substances and technologies in order to produce a selective improvement of the cognitive and emotional abilities of an individual and augmentation (enhancement) defined as “the totality of interventions is aimed at improving (natural) human anatomy or function beyond what is necessary to restore or sustain an optimal health”.

Touching ethical aspects, he added neuro-security framework as a solution can ensure the non-violation of the ethical aspects in the use of neuro-technologies in the security and defence sectors.

“Neuro-augmentation provides a number of tools designed to optimize the working process and to augment cognitive functions in healthy individuals (attention, short term memory, concentration, sensory processing, etc) that may have applications for national security professions.

Neuro-augmentation not only contributes to the achievement of both maximal individual and collective cognitive development in „smart organizations” but also to the realization of distributed cognitive architectures between human intelligence and AI, he concluded.