Thu Dec 1, 2022 – 4:25 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – Tech mogul Elon Musk expressed hope Wednesday for human trials of his Neuralink wireless brain chip to start within six months, a project raising questions about the ethics of blurring the line between man and machine.
“We want to be extremely careful and certain that it will work well before putting a device into a human,” the Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and Twitter chief said of the device, the New York Post reported. “The progress at first, particularly as it applies to humans, will seem perhaps agonizingly slow, but we are doing all of the things to bring it to scale in parallel. So, in theory, progress should be exponential.”
A passion project for years, Musk says Neuralink holds promise for a broad range of applications, from restoring disabled patients’ eyesight and motor function to mentally controlling electronic devices. He also touts the project as a safeguard against artificial intelligence (AI) eventually becoming “much smarter than humans” and controlling society. Only by “merging” with AI, Musk claims, will humans develop the capacity to stay ahead of it and protect themselves from it.
Neuralink, which has missed several
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