Hybrid Intention and Augmented Agency: Allocation of Criminal Culpability in Neuroprosthetic Control
Neuroprosthetic systems translate neural or muscular signals into physical action, so harm can follow from conduct that is neither purely manual nor meaningfully autonomous. The article develops hybrid intention for cases in which a human purpose remains identifiable while the system materially shapes how that purpose is carried out, and sets an evidentiary threshold — case-level explainability, prior validation and sufficiently complete logging — that a system-mediated output must pass before it can support attribution. It then locates the control actually available to the human agent across design, configuration, operation and emergency.