Elon Musk’s brain chip breakthrough as he confirms human testing to happen in months

Mr Musk has even claimed he will get one of these implants inserted. During the presentation, he said, “You could have a Neuralink device implanted right now and you wouldn’t even know. I mean, hypothetically … In fact, in one of these demos, I will.”

But some experts have raised the alarm over Mr Musk’s new technology, warning that it could have serious ethical complications and would also require invasive medical procedures to get them implanted. 

Anna Wexler, an assistant professor of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania, told CNBC: “From an ethical perspective, I think that hype is very concerning. Space or Twitter, that’s one thing, but when you come into the medical context, the stakes are higher.

But Xing Chen, from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, added: “There’s quite a few disorders, such as epilepsy, Parkinson’s and obsessive-compulsive disorder, in which people have received brain implants and the disorders have been treated quite successfully, allowing them to have an improved quality of life,” Chen said. “So I do feel that there is a precedent for doing this.”

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