Biological computing and related legal considerations
March 15, 2023
As recent innovations in Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) such as ChatGPT ignite debate over issues such as the legal status of non-humans, privacy implications of novel computing abilities, and rights of intelligent systems’ creators over output, similar considerations confront another emerging computing field—one involving human cells. A team of Johns Hopkins scientists recently detailed their efforts to overcome technological limitations AI faces, like systems’ size and efficiency, with biological computing. Otherwise known as “organoid intelligence” (“OI”), biological computing uses neurons in three-dimensional human brain cell cultures to memorize and evaluate inputs.