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.
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.
Hey anonymous dumb enough to sign up kinda deserves it imo.
Desperate enough.
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Ok, that’s neat. I wanna see him use it first.
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.
Did they run out of monkeys?
No, anyone who signs up for this is one.
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
And Elon is going first right… right?
Actually… you might be on to something here. He may already have gone. Might explain the erratic behavior. The dumb shit he says and does looks an awful lot like brain damage 🤔
I wonder if he’ll later say he only implanted people who were already dying with the devices.
As opposed to the rest of us who are not dying.
I had forgotten about this until you mentioned it…
I just found it stupid that he said only those who were dying were tested on… Everyone’s dying, that’s a shit excuse.
Calm down Sylvia Plath. You know what he meant.
Elon Musk’s Neuralink approved to recruit
foolshumans for brain-implant trialThis is the one he cooked all those monkey brains for? Pass.
1,500 animals died, including 280 sheep, pigs, and monkeys. Sounds really reliable.
i mean its likely not reliable but i bet some animal deaths are inevitable when developing a new implant. 1500 sounds way too high though.
He ignored his employees saying that the device wasn’t ready and forced them to try it on the animals
ah didnt know that, yep thats awful
If you put any shit from this man in your head, you deserve what happens to you.
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.
How long before Musk decides to charge per thought?
He’s hoping to make your life pay to win.
It’s already pay to win. They’re trying to make it pay to live.
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).
I’m sure Musk will weep for anyone who dies in these experimentations. He’s totally not a sociopath, you know?
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.
