Brain, Health, Intelligence, Innovation (Federal Program)

2021: Development of a program for injecting chips into the human brain

On June 22, 2021, it became known about the federal program "Brain, Health, Intelligence, Innovation" being developed by the Government of the Russian Federation, which, among other things, involves the possibility of injecting chips into the human brain for direct data transmission from external devices (exoskeletons, computers, etc.).

A source close to the Ministry of Education and Science told Kommersant about this initiative. The document was developed by the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) together with Moscow State University and approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin in March 2021, follows from a copy of a letter from the head of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Sergeyev to the president with a working version of the program. Putin instructed Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and head of the presidential administration Anton Vaino to study the program.

The Russian government is developing a program for injecting chips into the human brain, Putin approved it

The cost of the program was estimated at 54 billion rubles, funds for it are planned to be taken from the national projects "Science," "Demography," "Health Care," "Labor Productivity and Employment Support" and "Digital Economy."

As part of the program, it is planned to create neurointerfaces for managing complex systems - aircraft, nuclear power plants, cars - both directly and remotely, on the principle of remote presence, an avatar, which will allow people to work in dangerous or inaccessible places, for example, in areas with high radiation. Interfaces will also be created that will ensure "independent formation of goals, assessment of situations, forecasting their development and decision-making."

Denis Kuleshov, Director of ANO Laboratory Sensor-Teh, noted that brain-computer technologies have long been developed in Russia for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. At the same time, he called the most advanced interfaces built directly into the brain.

Such technologies allow not only to transmit a signal from the carrier, but also to send data directly to it in the brain, "said Kuleshov.[1]

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