Elon Musk’s brain implant startup, Neuralink is set to begin human trials. The company opened recruitment for its first human clinical trial on September 19th, and has had backlash since the announcement.
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00:00 Elon Musk's brain implant startup, Neuralink, is set to begin human trials.
00:05 The company opened recruitment for its first human clinical trial on September 19th,
00:10 and has had backlash since the announcement.
00:12 Neuralink is going to offer implants to people who suffer from paralysis.
00:17 The chip will record and send brain signals to an app,
00:20 with the goal of allowing these patients to control a computer or keyboard using just their thoughts.
00:25 Musk posted to X saying, "The first human patient will soon receive a Neuralink device.
00:30 This ultimately has the potential to restore full body movement.
00:34 Imagine if Stephen Hawking had this."
00:36 However, Neuralink and the entrepreneur are facing criticism from the public,
00:41 primarily over the fact that 15 out of 23 of the monkeys used in testing died.
00:47 Musk responded to this saying, "No monkey has died as a result of a Neuralink implant.
00:53 First, our early implants, to minimize risk to healthy monkeys,
00:57 we chose terminal monkeys, close to death already."
01:00 But public records and interviews conducted with a former Neuralink employee
01:04 and a researcher at the UC Davis Primate Center indicate otherwise.
01:09 The documents include veterinary records that depict gruesome portrayals of suffering
01:13 endured by a minimum of 12 of the Neuralink monkeys, all of whom needed to be euthanized.