Can’t wait for the horror movie based on a true story about all of this to eventually come out. When you read what happened to some of the monkeys in these experiments, know that whoever the fuck signs up for this is in for a shitty time:
Wired notes a December 2019 experiment outlined in one of the documents saying one monkey had to be euthanized after a piece of Neuralink’s brain implant broke off during the surgical process, leading to infection. Another macaque mentioned — known as Animal 15 — “began to press her head against the floor for no apparent reason” days after receiving the implant, and her condition only went downhill from there:
Animal 15 began to lose coordination and staff observed that she would shake uncontrollably when she saw lab workers. Her condition deteriorated for months until the staff finally euthanized her. A necropsy report indicates that she had bleeding in her brain and that the Neuralink implants left parts of her cerebral cortex “focally tattered.”
Can’t wait for the horror movie based on a true story about all of this to eventually come out. When you read what happened to some of the monkeys in these experiments, know that whoever the fuck signs up for this is in for a shitty time:
https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/20/23882888/elon-musk-brain-implant-startup-neuralink-monkeys-euthanized