Neuralink, one of billionaire Elon Musk’s new companies, announced Thursday that it has received approval from US health authorities to test brain implants in humans.
“This is an important first step that will allow our technology to help many people one day,” the California company said on the social network Twitter, adding that “clinical trial recruitment is not yet open.”
Neuralink designs devices that are implanted in the brain and communicate directly with computers through thoughts.
Its original purpose is to help people who are paralyzed or who suffer from neurological disorders.
The ‘start-up’ then wants to make these implants safe and reliable enough to be used and to ‘equip’ the brain with computing capacity.
For Elon Musk, these “chips” should enable humanity to achieve a “symbiosis with artificial intelligence (AI),” according to a speech at the company’s annual conference in 2022.
The billionaire said he fears AI systems could overtake and take over humans.
In March, he founded X.AI, a new company that specializes in AI, presumably to rival OpenAI, the company that invented ChatGPT, a successful AI program capable of communicating with humans and providing all sorts of information on demand. produce texts.
Source: DN
