The Download: the first brain implant power user and South Korea’s AI obsession
A mixed consumer-tech digest with peripheral AI-attitude data - low priority for APS governance readers.
Key points
- MIT Technology Review digest covers a BCI power-user story and South Korean public attitudes toward AI.
- South Korea shows lowest AI concern globally at 16%, contrasting sharply with 50% of worried Americans.
- Limited direct relevance to Australian federal AI governance - included for general context only.
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"The Download: the first brain implant power user and South Korea’s AI obsession"
Source: MIT Technology Review – AI
Published: 16 June 2026
URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/16/1139010/the-download-brain-implant-power-user-bci-south-korea-ai-obsession/
This MIT Technology Review Download covers two distinct stories: Casey Harrell's use of a speech brain-computer interface (BCI) to communicate and work independently despite ALS, described as the first 'power user' of such a device; and a feature on South Korean public enthusiasm for AI, drawing on Pew Research Center data showing only 16% of South Koreans are more concerned than excited about AI - the lowest of 25 countries surveyed. Neither story directly engages AI governance, regulation, or public sector practice.
Retrieved from SIMS, 18 July 2026.