Human Enhancement
BCIs, neural decoding, and cognitive augmentation — closing the loop between mind and machine.
State of the world · updated June 2026
Right now: invasive brain–computer interfaces are decoding richer intent in small clinical trials, and electrode density is the curve everything else rides on. The rest of the field — AR/VR, cognitive tooling — is augmentation around the edges, not yet a direct line in.
Watch: non-invasive decoding showing genuine signal, channel counts climbing, and the first credible moves from trial to clinic.
Start here · the primer
The bet here is that the interface between brain and computer becomes a bandwidth problem rather than a biology one. Read intention out of neural signal, write feedback back in, and the bottleneck stops being the body. Today that means electrodes and small clinical trials; the throughline is channel count climbing and decoding moving from cursor control toward speech — and the open question of how far any of it works without opening the skull.
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Drawing through a BCI
A Neuralink trial participant is drawing on screen using only decoded intent — a real step up from moving a cursor.
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