Musk hired people to experiment and implant chips in the brain, do you dare?

Jimu news reporter Hu Li

According to Russia today reported on January 21, Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk founded the company "Neuralink" has begun to openly recruit clinical trial personnel to conduct human experiments on the "brain-computer interface" technology, which is awaiting regulatory approval.

CT imaging of the brain. Image source: Getty Pictures

It is reported that in 2016, Elon Musk founded a company called "Neuralink" to study a "brain-computer interface" technology that uses electric current to "interact" with computer and brain cells. This technology will implant tiny electrodes in the human brain, in the hope that one day people's thoughts can be used to upload and download.

On February 2, 2021, Musk said that Neuralink is in close communication with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and hopes to conduct initial human trials as soon as possible.

In December 2021, Musk expects to implant a "Neuralink" brain chip into the human body sometime in 2022. He claims that these brain chips will help paralyzed people control devices such as smartphones with their brains. Once human testing begins, more new advances will be made, including addressing many disabilities by influencing signals between neurons.

In addition, "Neuralink" has been tested on chips in the brains of macaques and pigs. Last April, the company released a video of a monkey playing a video game with its brain.

Last month, Musk said at the Wall Street Journal CEO Council Summit that the first human test subjects will be people with severe spinal cord injuries, such as quadriplegics. "We have the opportunity to restore whole-body function to patients with spinal cord injury through 'Neuralink'," he said. ”