Novel neurotechnologies, like deep brain stimulation and brain‐computer interface, offer great hope for treating, curing, and preventing disease, but raise important questions about effects these devices may have on human identity, authenticity, and autonomy. After briefly assessing recent narrative work in these areas, we show that agency is a phenomenon key to all three goods and highlight the ways in which neural devices can help to draw attention to the relational nature of our agency. Drawing on insights from disability theory, we argue that neural devices provide a kind of agential assistance, similar to that provided by caregivers, family, and others. As such, users and devices participate in a kind of co‐agency. We conclude by suggesting the need for developing relational agency‐competencies—skills for reflecting on the influence of devices on agency, for adapting to novel circumstances ushered in by devices, and for incorporating the feedback of loved ones and others about device effects on agency.

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神经技术伦理和关系代理

新的神经技术，如深部脑刺激和脑机接口，为治疗、治愈和预防疾病提供了巨大的希望，但也提出了关于这些设备可能对人类身份、真实性和自主性产生影响的重要问题。在简要评估这些领域最近的叙事工作后，我们表明代理是所有三种商品的关键现象，并强调神经装置可以帮助引起对关系的关注的方式我们机构的性质。借鉴残疾理论的见解，我们认为神经装置提供了一种代理帮助，类似于照顾者、家人和其他人提供的帮助。因此，用户和设备参与一种共同代理。最后，我们提出了发展关系代理能力的必要性——反思设备对代理的影响的技能，适应设备带来的新环境，以及整合亲人和其他人关于设备对代理的影响的反馈的技能。