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Pivoting Human Resource Policy Around Emerging Invasive and Non-invasive Neurotechnology

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This chapter discusses a range of novel yet plausible applications of neurotechnology in a future cyber smart city workforce, along with regulatory mechanisms which may be necessary in mitigating the societal challenges each could pose. If the impact of brain stimulation technologies on the cyber workforce of tomorrow does not take a considered approach, a class divide may open, between analysts who use invasive, non-invasive, and no brain enhancement techniques. Cybernetic products such as Musk (J Med Internet Res J Med Internet Res 21(10):e16194, 2019) Neuralink implant could be used to technologically enhance the attentional capacity of cyber network defence analysts (CNDAs) who will be charged with defending virtual threat environments. For example, the first cybernetically enhanced network defence analysts are most likely to appear in the military rather than the civilian space (Parks in Brain chips and the future of human evolution, 2022). Military CNDAs who have a Neuralink implanted into their cortex during their service period, will eventually retire to the civilian sector. Since any attempt at requisitioning the N1 would require a second brain surgery, the military are unlikely to require retiring service members to give up their brain chips. The development of cybernetically enhanced CNDAs should not, however, require surgery to stay competitive in the already underserviced network defence workforce. However, modern neurotechnological wearables, such as the Artinis (Starstim fNIRS, 2019a), (fNIRS—tDCS—EEG, 2019b) Starstim could enable modern human resource policy to pivot around invasive as well as non-invasive methods. Nuanced navigation of invasive and non-invasive neuro-technologies, such as Neuralink and Starstim, will facilitate a smooth, ethically responsible transition to cybernetic enhancement in a future cyber smart city workforce.

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Guidetti, O.A., Speelman, C.P. (2023). Pivoting Human Resource Policy Around Emerging Invasive and Non-invasive Neurotechnology. In: Ahmed, M., Haskell-Dowland, P. (eds) Cybersecurity for Smart Cities. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24946-4_3

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