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BIS Considering New Emerging Tech Export Control

The Bureau of Industry and Security is considering requesting public comments on new export controls for certain brain-computer interface (BCI) technology. The agency sent the pre-rule for interagency review Oct. 5 and said it hopes to determine whether BCI represents an emerging technology important to U.S. national security and whether “effective controls can be implemented.”

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If approved by the interagency, BIS will ask for feedback about whether BCI technology could provide the U.S. or its adversaries a “qualitative military or intelligence advantage” and how the agency can best impose controls that don’t unnecessarily limit “legitimate commercial or scientific applications.”