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.”

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.”