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Biohackers Attempted Neurosurgery to Control a Lobster’s Nervous System and Give the Controls to OpenClaw, and How It Ended Will Tell You a Lot About the Ethics and Competence of AI Bros These Days

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Biohackers Attempted Neurosurgery to Control a Lobster’s Nervous System and Give the Controls to OpenClaw, and How It Ended Will Tell You a Lot About the Ethics and Competence of AI Bros These Days
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David Foster Wallace once asked readers to “consider the lobster,” in his famous essay about the ethics of boiling the creatures alive.



But new tech brings new horrors, and perhaps Wallace, if he were alive today, would instead be writing about biohacking lobster brains so they can be taken over by an AI agent. Because that’s exactly what a group of young tech founders in San Francisco have attempted to do, according to a riveting side plot in a new feature from The Atlantic

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