The Australian military is now funding experiments that subject lab-grown human brain cells for use as “organoid” computer chips to power Artificial Intelligence.

If it sounds bizarre or even de-humanizing, it should come as no surprise to Trends Journal readers.

We’ve covered and made forecasts concerning the troubling use of human organics to power combinations of AI and organic weapons systems, and for other purposes in a number of articles, such as:

• “THE FUTURE: (NATURAL) HUMAN FLESH FOR FANTASY” (20 Jun 2023)
• “DE-HUMAN ‘COMMODITY EVOLUTION’” (7 Mar 2023)
• “‘BIO-PHARMA’ PROFITING OFF A TRANSHUMAN FUTURE” (7 Jul 2021)
• “ARMY DEVELOPING WAR MACHINE ‘FLESH’ ROBOTS” (27 Apr 2021)

The latest development regarding using clusters of human brain cells (sometimes referred to as organoids), was announced by Australia’s Monarch University, which has been on the far edge of such research, at least as far as publicly known projects.

The university has received a grant worth over 600 thousand AUD by the country’s National Intelligence and Security Discovery Research Grants Program. 

Associate Professor Razi said the research program’s work involves lab-grown brain cells embedded onto silicon chips, which “merges the fields of artificial intelligence and synthetic biology to create programmable biological computing platforms.”

The new project will further develop brain cells to carry out tasks in a melding with AI and machine learning. It’s being conducted as a joint venture of the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, and Melbourne start-up Cortical Labs.

Last year Razi’s team gained widespread notice for experiments that employed brain cells’ to play the classic computer game Pong. (See “BRAIN CELLS IN A LAB DISH LEARN TO PLAY A VIDEO GAME,” 18 Oct 2022.)

In a statement about the new funding and project goals, Razi said:

“This new technology capability in future may eventually surpass the performance of existing, purely silicon-based hardware.

“The outcomes of such research would have significant implications across multiple fields such as, but not limited to, planning, robotics, advanced automation, brain-machine interfaces, and drug discovery, giving Australia a significant strategic advantage.”