Lab creates brain made from rat cells

KingNothing writes "A University of Florida scientist has created a living "brain" of cultured rat cells that now controls an F-22 fighter jet flight simulator. Scientists say the research could lead to tiny, brain-controlled prosthetic devices and unmanned airplanes flown by living computers. Read on for more."

Comments

Jesus Fucking Christ!

[Lord Kano]

Don't these people ever watch Science Fiction films?

You don't put something like that in control of weapons.

A stealthy F22 controlled by an artificially grown brain falling into the hands of some shady characters sounds like the central theme in a Steven Seagal movie.

In all seriousness. Something like this has no idea that it's wrong to fire on unarmed civillians. A human pilot does. A human pilot knows that if he drops a bomb on unarmed civillians, there is a chance that he'll be spending time on the wrong side of a cell.

A human pilot will hesitate, a human pilot may refuse. An artificial pilot has no moral or ethical problems with executing any order.

I like the idea of growing synthetic brains, it's a bad idea to give them weapons.

LK