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]OPEnglish
    10•9 months 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.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]English
      10•9 months ago

      In the present day I can easily see a liberal spin on it in newsrags that says something like “sorry, hate to break it to you, but like it or not, chipping prisoners is improving the future for humans and making those prisoners repay their debt to society in a humanity-saving way, actually.”