The BCI Pioneers Coalition has published “OUR BCI: Recommendations for Ethical Implanted BCI Research,” developed with academic researchers from discussions involving six implanted BCI research participants. The document addresses 13 areas, including consent, compensation, neural-data privacy and care after a trial. It calls for agreements that clarify control and ownership of implanted components, external hardware, software and participant-specific decoders before implantation.
For device developers, the recommendations extend to maintaining useful function when trials end or commercial support disappears. They propose funding arrangements for maintenance and explantation, plans for transferring responsibilities when investigators move, and designs that reduce vulnerability to obsolete hardware or abandoned software.
Please see my prior post on what happens to patients when AIMD company vanishes.