{"id":226644,"date":"2025-12-07T04:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/computers-made-from-human-brain-tissue-are-coming-are-we-prepared"},"modified":"2025-12-07T04:09:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T10:09:00","slug":"computers-made-from-human-brain-tissue-are-coming-are-we-prepared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/computers-made-from-human-brain-tissue-are-coming-are-we-prepared","title":{"rendered":"Computers Made From Human Brain Tissue Are Coming. Are We Prepared?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/computers-made-from-human-brain-tissue-are-coming-are-we-prepared.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As prominent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/artificial-intelligence\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) researchers eye <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cdx4x47w8p1o\">limits<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dwarkesh.com\/p\/ilya-sutskever-2\">current phase<\/a> of the technology, a different approach is gaining attention: using living human brain cells as computational hardware.<\/p>\n<p>These \u201cbiocomputers\u201d are still in their early days. They can <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.neuron.2022.09.001\">play simple games<\/a> such as Pong, and <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41928-023-01069-w\">perform basic speech recognition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But the excitement is fuelled by three converging trends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach is gaining attention: using living human brain cells as computational hardware. These \u201cbiocomputers\u201d are still in their early days. They can play simple games such as Pong, and perform basic speech recognition. But the excitement is fuelled [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}