A group of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology presented a project called Human Operator and it honestly seems less like a technological invention and more like the beginning of a discussion that no one was prepared for.

There is a huge difference between an artificial intelligence answering our questions and an artificial intelligence moving our own body. Recently, a team at MIT created something that seems straight out of a Cyberpunk novel, a system where an AI manages to temporarily take over control of the human arm using electrical impulses.

The name of the project is human Operator, honestly, the more you understand how it works, the more uncomfortable the idea becomes, the proposal was simple and disturbing at the same time, allow an artificial intelligence to teach physical movements directly to the human body, not through text, video or instructions, but by moving your muscles for you.

And the most curious thing is that they did not use any futuristic secret technology, the system starts with something relatively common, a camera, microphone and an Anthropic AI, processing visual information and voice commands, the difference appears in the next stage, after analyzing the task, the AI ​​calculates exactly which muscles must be activated to execute a certain movement.

These commands are sent to an Arduino board connected to electrodes fixed to the user's forearm, from there a technology called IMS or electrical muscle stimulation comes into action, that is, small electrical impulses cause the muscles to contract involuntarily and that is where the border between human and machine begins to become strange.

During the demonstrations, the AI ​​managed to get users to move their hand, perform specific gestures and even play simple melodies on a keyboard, even without previously knowing how to execute it, the movements are real, the fingers really move, but the sensation described by the participants seems something between fascination and momentary loss of bodily control.