April 21, 2021
4:38 p.m.
Last week, Elon Musk’s neural implant company Neuralink released a video of a primate, who’d been implanted with its technology, playing the game “Pong” with its thoughts. The technologically flashy but otherwise disappointing demo — neuroscientists first developed and demonstrated mind-control tech in primates decades ago — represented Neuralink’s growing prominence in the public sphere, and raised important questions about privacy, data ownership, and biomedical ethics. [1] Antonio [1] https://futurism.com/neoscope/expert-neuralink-sell-private-thoughts-highest...