DARPA dreaming of creating cyborgs for US military, new book reveals
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is running a program that involves implanting chips in American forces' brains in order to create super soldiers, says a newly-published book by a well-known author.
According to “The Pentagon’s Brain” by Annie Jacobsen, the secretive research arm of the US Department of Defense is dreaming of creating military cyborgs, Fusion reported Sunday.
“Neuroprosthetics” brain implants are already being tested, according to the book about the history of DARPA, published by Little, Brown and Company.
Despite several appeals by Jacobsen, the US Defense Department has refused allowing her interview any of the “brain-wounded warriors.”
The program also aims at fixing brains of the soldiers traumatized during the battle.
“Of the 2.5 million Americans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, 300,000 of them came home with traumatic brain injury,” Jacobsen told NPR. “DARPA initiated a series of programs to help cognitive functioning, to repair some of this damage. And those programs center around putting brain chips inside the tissue of the brain.”
Last year, Defense One magazine reported that DARPA was engaged in creating brain chips to treat post traumatic stress disorder in soldiers.
“The military hopes to have a prototype within 5 years and then plans to seek FDA approval,” said the magazine.
“When you see all of these brain mapping programs going on, many scientists wonder whether this will [be what it takes] to break that long-sought barrier of AI,” Jacobsen said.
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