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Readiness verdict

Inner-Speech Neuroprosthesis (Stanford/UC Davis BrainGate)

A dated reading of what is claimed, reported, and independently verified in the current evidence.

As of
2026-08-20
Revision
1
Method
v1.3.0

Current reading

Readiness band and full integer triple

AI-assisted assembly · derived results

Readiness band

Emerging

Primary summary from verified readiness

Confidence
77% · stale
Computed at
2026-08-20T10:54:34.158204+00:00
Claimed
35

Public ambition and stated capability

Reported
35

Observed practitioner reporting

Verified
31

Independently supported evidence

Gap
+4

Claimed leads verified

Evidence strength Strong

Decision

What the current evidence supports

Human editorial judgment · 2026-08-20

Too early to adopt

Why
A genuine scientific milestone (first real-time inner-speech decode, privacy lock at 98%+) but explicitly proof-of-principle: invasive, n=4, and unable to decode free-form thought reliably. No deployable surface exists.
Next
Track the Cell publication (Kunz/Willett, Aug 2025) and BrainGate2 follow-on cohorts; revisit when free-form decoding error rates drop and participant counts scale beyond single digits.

Constraints

Blockers

No named blocker is present in the current public projection.

Evidence summary

Derived counts

AI-assisted assembly

Total
12
Tier 1
0
Tier 2
10
Tier 3
2
Supports
6
Contradicts
3
Context
3
Latest observed
2025-08-15

Counts and dates only. Raw signals, private excerpts, trust records, and internal corpus material are not published here.

Publication record

Revisions

Initial public reading

  1. 2026-07-19 Reading moved from emerging to emerging.

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