Company is seeking people with paralysis to test its experimental device after getting green light from independent review board
Elon Musk’s brain-implant startup, Neuralink, said it has received approval from an independent review board to begin recruiting patients for its first human trial. The company is seeking people with paralysis to test its experimental device in a six-year study.
Neuralink is one of several companies developing a brain-computer interface (BCI) that can collect and analyze brain signals. But its billionaire executive’s bombastic promotion of the company, including promises to develop an all-encompassing brain computer to help humans keep up with artificial intelligence, has attracted skepticism and raised ethical concerns among neuroscientists and other experts.
Last year, the Food and Drug Administration denied the company’s request to fast-track human trials, but in May approved Neuralink for an investigational device exemption (IDE) that allows a device to be used for clinical studies. The agency has not disclosed how its initial concerns were resolved.
Personally, I think I’ll be avoiding anything that starts with “Elon Musk’s…”
Yeah, I certainly won’t use any product associated with that muskrat.
Things would have to seismically change in the tech/business world for me to trust any company enough to put something in my brain. That said, if I was forced to buy one the last two I would consider letting near my brain are Musk and Zuck
This is the one he cooked all those monkey brains for? Pass.
1,500 animals died, including 280 sheep, pigs, and monkeys. Sounds really reliable.
Come on fans. This is your moment to shine and show us just how much you believe in his bullshit.
Don’t you want to live like it’s Cyberpunk 2077? Now’s your chance!
Perhaps like one of the vegetables from 2077?
That fuck will sell ad space on the fucking thing and all you’ll get is Kanyes voice in your head chanting: “Elon macht frei” 24/7.
You can totally trust the guy who ran the biggest social media company into the ground within less than a year to surgically implant you with a device that has a 21% fatality rate.
Musk: “Scumbags of the world are welcome on my platforms!”
Also Musk: “Let me put this device in your brain.”
It’ll never get into testing…
Everyone that would volunteer, doesn’t have a place for the implant to go
i would say i don’t get it for the low hanging fruit troll, but fuck that. they really are just that stupid
I’d feel bad if this was the only option for those who are paralyzed, but it’s not.
The tech has existed for decades. Musk is just trying to shrink it so it’s less noticable, he’s just doing it before the tech is ready
If you put any shit from this man in your head, you deserve what happens to you.
On the bright side, there will be a few less musk fans around after they are lobotomised.
How long before Musk decides to charge per thought?
For $8, you get to be able to have basic motor function. For $10 a month, you get the rudiments of speech. For $15 a month, otherwise known as Neuralink Blue, you get free speech (free speech limited to what Elon approves of you saying).
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he could integrate the input controls over to AI and launch a zombie army
If it works then it will be the ultimate advance in human capability since the invention of the internet. But i don’t trust Elon to respect anyone’s privacy rights.
What?
We’ve had implants that can control a mouse and even type on a keyboard for decades now…
Neurolink is just a less obvious interface, the gains are nowhere near worth the setbacks.
Regular science gets thing working then shrinks it down. Musk jumped straight to shrinking it down, and he just fucking can’t get it to work.
It cannot “work”. Even if it succeeded technically speaking, you cannot expect such a device to be secure (as no device is, and certainly not one made by Musk).
Now computerised cars are already an increasing risk in giving new ways to commit murder without being caught, but if you directly put a security risk in your brain, I am pretty sure that many people will jump on the occasion.
Even if it works completely as intended, that’s also terrible under capitalism. You think advertising is manipulative now, wait until it comes in the form of literal mind control.
We can worry about privacy after he stops melting brains.
I just hope the poor human test subjects don’t end up like those monkies.
I’m sure Musk will weep for anyone who dies in these experimentations. He’s totally not a sociopath, you know?
Interfacing with the brain is easy, we’ve been doing it for decades. Let me know when we can leave an implant in for a decade without it turning into a scar tissue tumor.
Although hopefully I’ll have died of old age before that happens. Being able to plug in people is the basis of more dystopian nightmares than I can count, and I have zero confidence in our species ability to prevent those horrors from being reality.
We can’t even get VR and AR right ans we don’t even really know what to do with it. What are we going to use neuralink for? Turning off our TV with our minds?
What? Vr, while still a developing tech, has come a long way in capability, reliability and affordability.
"come a long way "
Sure, I agree. But it’s not “there” yet. I’ve had headsets since the DK2. I love VR but it still needs a few years and there’s no real killer app yet. AR is the same if not worse. The Apple headset is interesting but it;s still not close. I’m looking forward to see where it will go.
