Schulz Daniela, Lillo-Navarro Carmen, Slors Marc, Hrabéczy Anett, Reuter Martin
Behavioral Biology Laboratory, Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Center for Life Sciences and Technologies, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
Department of Pathology and Surgery, Center for Translational Research in Physiotherapy, Miguel Hernández University, Alicante, Spain.
Front Neurosci. 2024 Jul 26;18:1330470. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2024.1330470. eCollection 2024.
Futuristic universities like The Neurotech and the technological innovations they provide will shape and serve society, but will also require support from society. Positive attitudes about neuro-technologies will increase their reach within society and may also impact policy-making, including funding decisions. However, the acceptability rates, especially of invasive neuro-technologies, are quite low and the majority of people are more worried than enthusiastic about them. The question therefore arises as to what neuro-technological advances should entail. In a rare effort to reach out to the public, we propose to conduct a trans-national survey with the goal to better understand the challenges of our Neurotech nations. We aim to compare and contrast our nations specifically with respect to their perspectives on neuro-technological advances, i.e., their needs for, interests in, access to, knowledge of and trust in neuro-technologies, and whether these should be regulated. To this end, we have developed the first version of a new tool-the which assesses all six of these dimensions (needs, interest, access, knowledge, trust, and policy-making) and is designed for administration across EU/AC countries. In addition to trans-national comparisons, we will also examine the links of our nations' perspectives on neuro-technological advances to demographic and personality variables, for example, education and socio-economic status, size of the residential area, the Big Five personality traits, religiosity, political standings, and more. We expect that this research will provide a deeper understanding of the challenges that our nations are facing as well as the similarities and differences between them, and will also help uncover the variables that predict positive and negative attitudes toward neuro-technological advances. By integrating this knowledge into the scientific process, The Neurotech may be able to develop neuro-technologies that people really care about, are ethical and regulated, and actually understood by the user.
像神经科技大学这样的未来型大学及其提供的技术创新将塑造社会并为社会服务，但同时也需要社会的支持。对神经技术的积极态度将扩大其在社会中的影响力，还可能影响政策制定，包括资金决策。然而，特别是侵入性神经技术的接受率相当低，大多数人对它们更多的是担忧而非热情。因此，问题就出现了，神经技术进步应该包含哪些内容。为了难得地向公众伸出援手，我们提议开展一项跨国调查，目标是更好地了解我们神经科技国家所面临的挑战。我们旨在特别就各国对神经技术进步的看法进行比较和对比，即它们对神经技术的需求、兴趣、获取途径、知识以及信任程度，以及这些技术是否应该受到监管。为此，我们开发了一种新工具的首个版本——该工具评估上述所有六个维度（需求、兴趣、获取途径、知识、信任和政策制定），并设计用于在欧盟/非加太国家进行管理。除了跨国比较之外，我们还将研究各国对神经技术进步的看法与人口统计学和个性变量之间的联系，例如教育程度和社会经济地位、居住地区规模、大五人格特质、宗教信仰、政治立场等等。我们预计这项研究将更深入地了解我们各国所面临的挑战以及它们之间的异同，还将有助于揭示预测对神经技术进步持积极和消极态度的变量。通过将这些知识融入科学过程，神经科技大学或许能够开发出人们真正关心、符合伦理道德且受到监管、并且用户真正理解的神经技术。
