Ask HN: How can AI be used in brain machine interfaces?

So sometime around the mid 1990s there was this thing that came out about these Buddhist monks where they would put electrocardiograph suckers all over their head and so you'd have these bald monks with these with these wires coming out of their head and then they would do things like they move EKG needles. And so forget Elon musk's neurolink or whatever that is because if you if you put in something that's hardwired into someone's head and then there's a software update what happens right like if if the hardware becomes deprecated what do you do right like it's just it's a bad idea. But supposing that you put electrocardiograph suckers on someone's head or you made a helmet and then you connected this to AI could you use it to make make it so that somebody would wear virtual reality glasses and then could affect the virtual reality via a brain interface it was like a helmet or suckers on their head or something. And yes I understand that there may be some sort of Scientology connection to e-readers but I'm not particularly interested in that per se it's more or less a coincidence and so this doesn't have any kind of religious connotation I'm more interested in if we can make something along the lines of like the matrix or virtual reality or something like Johnny mnemonic or something like this. Again yes I understand there's a science fiction element to this. But if this is possible then you can do things like make visual representations not only of data but how someone reacts to data. So suppose that you had a compendium of all of the knowledge from erowid which is a drug database based on trip reports and you use that to create visual representations of data structures based on how someone interacts with the virtual environment. On that note there is in fact a paper on I'm using AI MRI imaging and trip reports from the website and seeing if there's a correlation between how someone's biology affects the way that they speak and think. In any case I see all of these uses for AI that are incredibly software focused but I don't see as much in terms of hardware such as robotics in order to get new data or interfaces in order to interact with data that we have already. So rather than have for example the next iPhone being iPhone 20 or 30 or something who is going to make the newest brain machine interface that uses AI to interact with a virtual environment?