Elon Musk’s Neuralink approved to recruit humans for brain-implant trial
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Company is seeking people with paralysis to test its experimental device after getting green light from independent review board

| Elon Musk | The Guardian

Company is seeking people with paralysis to test its experimental device after getting green light from independent review board

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      expanded to prisoners

      I can imagine the plot of a 1980s sci-fi dystopia movie where the evil billionaire says “The implant means they will get time off for good behavior. Or they’ll die an serve a useful purpose.” In the real world it’s ~50 years later and the movie’s flaw is that the evil billionaire is ~100 times as rich.