Human Organoid Brains in Hell

Cortical Labs built the CL1, a system that grows human neurons and connects them directly to a computer chip. Last week, someone wired it up to play Doom. As one person summarized it:

Someone said:

"We grew a human brain fused to a computer, sent it to a digital rendition of Hell, and gave it a gun"

A week later, the same organoid brain was used to control an LLM.

This situation raises an uncomfortable question: are these neurons conscious? Ethicists are going to have a rough time.

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