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Elon lied about the monkeys — and he shouldn't be trusted to put his Neuralink chips in human brains. (aus.social)

submitted 1 year ago by ajsadauskas@aus.social to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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Elon lied about the monkeys — and he shouldn't be trusted to put his Neuralink chips in human brains.

"They are claiming they are going to put a safe device on the market, and that's why you should invest," Ryan Merkley at the Physicians Committee, told Wired. "And we see his lie as a way to whitewash what happened in these exploratory studies."

Really heartbreaking reading what happened to the monkeys.

People quite rightly think of Elizabeth Holmes as a fraud for making false medical claims about what the Theranos machines could do. So why aren't Elon's claims at Neuralink being held to the same level of scrutiny?

https://futurism.com/neoscope/terrible-things-monkeys-neuralink-implants

@technology #Elon #Neuralink #ElonMusk

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[–] raymccarthy@historians.social 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@ajsadauskas @technology
I was astounded to read Neuralink is to be permitted to experiment on humans. Instead they should any animal experiment licences revoked.

[+] freemo@qoto.org -16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

@raymccarthy

Why? We already have brain interface links that do similar damage to neuralink, this isnt unusual or unexpected. In its current form it is rightfully used on terminal patients with locked-in syndom. In other words, people before it damaged their brain in a meaningful way and whom cant be further paralyzed.

It would give these people a chance at someinteraction with the real world... What happened with the monkeys was about in line with other neural interfaces, its a consequence of the limits of the tech not negligence.

@ajsadauskas @technology

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I hear the full self driving mode of the brain chips come out next year.

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 5 points 1 year ago

I'm not well-versed on the subject, but can locked-in patients consent to these risks? How do we know they want to risk getting these life-threatening side effects?

[–] raymccarthy@historians.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@freemo @ajsadauskas @technology
If there are already such implants why licence a company that seems less than, um, straight.

[–] freemo@qoto.org 1 points 1 year ago

@raymccarthy

Point is what happened the monkeys is perfectly normal and expected... so nothing "not straight" about that (other than the sadness of animal testing)...

That said I dont like them as a companya nd wouldnt buy an implant off of them if I needed one, sure... but you'd need a pretty solid objective reason to actually block them.

@ajsadauskas @technology