Neuralink describes their mission thus:
“Creating a general-purpose, high-bandwidth interface to the brain.”
This is the beginning of the cyborg as something other than science fiction. This is what Zuckerberg pretends he’s doing with that joke Metaverse. I guess there’s no way to stop this. But I don’t see it as a harmless thing. Some good things will come out of it like restoring motion and sight to people who have been injured. But we’ll see plenty of harmful consequences too.
We are excited to share that we have received the FDA’s approval to launch our first-in-human clinical study!
This is the result of incredible work by the Neuralink team in close collaboration with the FDA and represents an important first step that will one day allow our…
— Neuralink (@neuralink) May 25, 2023