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</font></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-size: small; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On March 21, another&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3863386" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">YouTube video</a>&nbsp;was uploaded saying Gates wants to</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> implant microchips in people and calling them a “mark of Satan</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">” that could be used for “identifying us to the&nbsp;<b>United Nations.</b>”</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The video has received nearly 1.8 million views and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3863391" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">at least 1.2 million Facebook engagements</a></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, according to the tracking tool BuzzSumo. That includes shares in&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/346378325942318/permalink/628567417723406" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">QAnon Facebook groups</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;and on a&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/drowned-out-algorithm-pro-vaccination-advocates-struggle-be-heard-online-n976321" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">major anti-vaxx Facebook page</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.[pix w/ pyr eye]</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;" /><div class="l--gutter-pull paragraph paragraph--type--stories-image paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: -58.625px; margin-right: -58.625px;"><div class="field field--name-field-stories-image field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><figure class="media media--image" role="group" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;" /></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="font-size: small; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>throughout the rest of March, more videos popped up on YouTube (</b>despite the platform’s&nbsp;<a href="https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2020/03/coronavirus-update-on-creator-support.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">pledge to crack down on</a>&nbsp;coronavirus misinformation<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">) accusing Gates of wanting&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3863406" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">“eugenics” and “population control”</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3863411" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">claiming he is</a>&nbsp;the antichrist and that he essentially supports genocide; they racked up another 1.6 million views combined. The videos included a clip from&nbsp;<b><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/youtube-permanently-bans-channel-that-called-trump-s-impeachment-jew-coup-1.8569322" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">anti-Semitic</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AlKapDC/status/953019673775353863" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">conspiracy</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AlKapDC/status/1138513233629843457" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">theory</a>&nbsp;outlet TruNews</b>&nbsp;and a video whose title&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3863416" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">called the virus</a>&nbsp;a “hoax” (those videos received&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3863436" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">hundreds of thousands</a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3863441" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Facebook engagements</a>&nbsp;combined)..</span>..[rw talk?]</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Videos on social media platform&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">TikTok p</span>ushing the conspiracy theory in late March and early April</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;also racked up many views (despite the platform’s&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-denying-conspiracy-theory-hashtag-spreading-tiktok-infowars-host" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">anti-misinformation policy</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">). One&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3863451" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">video</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;that received more than 230,000 views included in the caption “</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">#fvaccines</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">” and</span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;accused Gates of pushing for everyone on the planet to have a “</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">digital ID</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> … by combining mandatory vaccines with implantable microchips</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.” (Media Matters removes identifying information from videos created by or featuring minors to protect their identity.) Another video that received tens of thousands of views claimed Gates was “evil” and connected him to a plan to “get everybody microchipped” via vaccines.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...[pix]</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The conspiracy theory continued to spread following news in early April of Gates’ spending for a coronavirus cure. Another major&nbsp;<a href="https://angrywhitemen.org/2020/03/24/the-owner-of-a-white-nationalist-telegram-channel-revealed-his-jewish-heritage-now-some-allies-are-abandoning-him/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">white nationalist Telegram account</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3863481" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">shared</a>&nbsp;a post saying Gates wants the population “extinguished,” and multiple accounts on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/1468136673415899/posts/2677335485829339" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Facebook</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B-lj5YsApEk/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Instagram</a>, including QAnon and anti-vaxx accounts, shared a meme urging people to take “no vaccine from some shady ass nerd that wants to depopulate the planet.</span>”&nbsp;<b>Ben Garrison, a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/here-are-extremist-figures-going-white-house-social-media-summit" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">far-right and pro-Trump cartoonist</a></b>, drew a cartoon pushing the conspiracy theory that portrays<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Gates as a Nazi, which was also&nbsp;<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200408124550/https://thedonald.win/p/FMSsg9Mm/ben-garrison-bill-gates-vaccine/c/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">posted on</a>&nbsp;the backup site of the pro-Trump subreddit “r/The_Donald.”</span>[pix meme blk kid]</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...</span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By April 6, bigger&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/Education4Libs/status/1247317002189975553" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">QAnon</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/QBlueSkyQ/status/1246905905301663747" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">accounts</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;on social media had spread the conspiracy theory, such as&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/shortly-talking-about-jewish-question-qanon-supporter-says-turning-point" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Dylan Wheeler</a>,&nbsp;</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">who&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3863501" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">accused</a>&nbsp;Gates of using “microchip[s]” in order to be “the face of the&nbsp;<b style="">New World Order.”</b>&nbsp;</span></font></p></div></div></div><div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">see implant cyborg</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">no lnx</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>‘Scariest thing you’ll read all day’: New report sounds alarm over brain-reading tech and ‘neurocapitalism’</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Written by Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>August 30, 2019</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A Vox report that swiftly sparked alarm across the internet Friday outlined how, “in the era of neurocapitalism, your brain needs new rights,” following recent revelations that <b>Facebook and Elon Musk’s Neuralink are developing technologies to read people’s minds.</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As Vox‘s Sigal Samuel reported:</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Mark Zuckerberg’s </b>company is funding research on brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that can pick up thoughts directly from your neurons and translate them into words. The researchers say they’ve already built an algorithm that can decode words from brain activity in real time.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And Musk’s company has created flexible “threads” that can be implanted into a brain and could one day allow you to control your smartphone or computer with just your thoughts. Musk wants to start testing in humans by the end of next year.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Considering those and other companies’ advances and ambitions, Samuel warned that “your brain, the final privacy frontier, may not be private much longer</b>” and laid out how existing laws are not equipped to handle how these emerging technologies could “interfere with rights that are so basic that we may not even think of them as rights, like our ability to determine where our selves end and machines begin.”</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">My god.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“The technologies have the potential to interfere with rights that are so basic that we may not even think of them as rights, like our ability to determine where our selves end and machines begin. Our current laws are not equipped to address this.”https://t.co/H8EeBijuco</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) August 30, 2019</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Samuel interviewed neuroethicist Marcello Ienca, a researcher at ETH Zurich who published a paper in 2017 detailing four human rights for the neurotechnology age that he believes need to be protected by law. Ienca told Samuel, “I’m very concerned about the commercialization of brain data in the consumer market.”</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“And I’m not talking about a farfetched future. We already have consumer neurotech, with people trading their brain data for services from private companies,” he said, pointing to video games that use brain activity and wearable devices that monitor human activities such as sleep. “I’m tempted to call it neurocapitalism.”</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The Vox report broke down the four rights</b> that, according to Ienca, policymakers need to urgently safeguard with new legislation:</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The right to cognitive liberty: You should have the right to freely decide you want to use a given neurotechnology or to refuse it.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The right to mental privacy: You should have the right to seclude your brain data or to publicly share it.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The right to mental integrity: You should have the right not to be harmed physically or psychologically by neurotechnology.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The right to psychological continuity: You should have the right to be protected from alterations to your sense of self that you did not authorize.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Brain data is the ultimate refuge of privacy. When that goes, everything goes,” Ienca said. “And once brain data is collected on a large scale, it’s going to be very hard to reverse the process.”</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Samuel’s report generated concerned commentary on Twitter, with readers calling the piece “the scariest thing you’ll read all day” and declaring, “I do not want to live in this future.”</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In case you were sleeping too well lately https://t.co/KIPtFSXUpv</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">— Joe Stewart-Sicking (@revjoess) August 30, 2019</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Tech reporter Benjamin Powers tweeted, “So how long until this is co-opted for national security purposes?”</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Ienca, in his interview with Samuel, noted that the Defense Department’s advanced research agency is assessing how neurotechnologies could be used on soldiers. </b>As he explained, “there is already military-funded research to see if we can monitor decreases in attention levels and concentration, with hybrid BCIs that can ‘read’ deficits in attention levels and ‘write’ to the brain to increase alertness through neuromodulation. There are DARPA-funded projects that attempt to do so.”</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“The researchers say they’ve already built an algorithm that can decode words from brain activity in real time.” So how long until this is co-opted for national security purposes? https://t.co/Uoo5XQ09Fh</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">— Benjamin Powers (@benjaminopowers) August 30, 2019</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Such technologies raise concerns about abuse not only by governments but also by corporations.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Journalist Noah Kulwin compared brain-reading tech to self-driving cars, suggesting that the former “can’t possibly work as presently marketed,” and given that governments aren’t prepared with human rights protections, companies will be empowered to “do a bunch of unregulated experimentation.”</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This sounds like self-driving cars. The technology can’t possibly work as presently marketed, and the government not being prepared=it’s just going to let companies do a bunch of unregulated experimentation https://t.co/QmCWG4Ydh1</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">— noah kulwin (@nkulw) August 30, 2019</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">wired</font></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="lede" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.08em; text-transform: uppercase;">MUSK DOESN’T&nbsp;</span>think his newest endeavor, revealed Tuesday night after two years of relative secrecy, will end&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">all&nbsp;</span>human suffering. Just a lot of it. Eventually.</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">At a presentation at the California Academy of Sciences, hastily announced via Twitter and beginning a half hour late, Musk presented the first product from his company </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Neuralink. It’s a tiny computer chip attached to ultrafine, electrode-studded wires, stitched into living brains by a clever robot. And depending on which part of the two-hour presentation you caught, it’s either a state-of-the-art tool for understanding the brain, a clinical advance for people with neurological disorders, or the next step in human evolution.</span></font></font></p><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The chip is custom-built to receive and process the electrical action potentials—“spikes”—that signal activity in the interconnected neurons that make up the brain. The wires embed into brain tissue and&nbsp;<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2018.11.002" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 3px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(180, 231, 248); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background 0.15s cubic-bezier(0.33, 0.66, 0.66, 1) 0s; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: rgb(180, 231, 248) 0px -4px 0px inset;">receive those spikes</a>. And the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/578542v1" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 3px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(180, 231, 248); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background 0.15s cubic-bezier(0.33, 0.66, 0.66, 1) 0s; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: rgb(180, 231, 248) 0px -4px 0px inset;">robotic sewing machine</a>&nbsp;places those wires with enviable precision, a “neural lace” straight out of science fiction that dodges the delicate blood vessels spreading across the brain’s surface like ivy.</font></font></p><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If Neuralink’s technologies work as Musk and his team intend, they’ll be able to pick up signals from across a person’s brain—first from the motor cortex that controls movement but eventually throughout your think-meat—and turn them into machine-readable code that a computer can understand</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> It might use them to control a computer or a prosthesis, to someday even feed information back to help the blind see, or to create entire virtual Matrixes inside your mind.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> “All this will occur I think quite slowly,” Musk said from the stage. “It’s not as if Neuralink will suddenly have this incredible neural lace and take over people’s brains. It will take a long time.” But after tests, and FDA approval, and more advances, this tech could be the thing that lets people commune with the ultrasmart artificial intelligences Musk is convinced are&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/company-wants-billions-make-ai-safe-humanity/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 3px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(180, 231, 248); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background 0.15s cubic-bezier(0.33, 0.66, 0.66, 1) 0s; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; box-shadow: rgb(180, 231, 248) 0px -4px 0px inset;">on the way</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. “Even in a benign AI scenario we will be left behind,” he said. “With a high-bandwidth brain-machine interface, we can actually go along for the ride. We can have the option of merging with AI.”</span></font></font></p><div class="inset-left-component paywall fade-in-up" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 10px 0px 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 50px 50px 50px -50px; padding: 16px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 200px; clear: left; float: left; opacity: 1; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition: opacity 0.35s cubic-bezier(0.33, 0.66, 0.66, 1) 0s, transform 0.35s cubic-bezier(0.33, 0.66, 0.66, 1) 0s, -webkit-transform 0.35s cubic-bezier(0.33, 0.66, 0.66, 1) 0s; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h4 name="inset-left" class="inset-left-componentel" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 40px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.15s cubic-bezier(0.33, 0.66, 0.66, 1) 0s; word-break: keep-all; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">LEARN MORE</font></font></h4><figure class="image-embed-component" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; max-width: 100%;"><div class="component-lazy loaded" data-component="Lazy" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="image-group-component" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font></div></div></figure><h5 name="inset-left" class="inset-left-componentel" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.15s cubic-bezier(0.33, 0.66, 0.66, 1) 0s; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.08em; text-transform: uppercase;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">THE WIRED GUIDE TO&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/guide-artificial-intelligence/?itm_campaign=GuideCarveLeft" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 3px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(180, 231, 248); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background 0.15s cubic-bezier(0.33, 0.66, 0.66, 1) 0s; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: rgb(180, 231, 248) 0px -4px 0px inset;">ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE</a></font></font></h5></div><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is all pretty on-brand for Musk. As the guy who runs the electric-car company Tesla and the rocket company SpaceX, Musk has gotten very good at—in trouble, even, for—taking impressive technological achievements and, well, maybe not hyping them, but let’s say skipping all the way to the end of their speculative narrative arcs. It’s not enough to have superslick electric cars; no, they’re also going to drive themselves. That rocket isn’t just going to ferry cargo to a space station; no, it’s going to take people to Mars. How exciting!</font></font></p><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Wall Street Journal</span>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-launches-neuralink-to-connect-brains-with-computers-1490642652" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 3px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(180, 231, 248); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background 0.15s cubic-bezier(0.33, 0.66, 0.66, 1) 0s; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: rgb(180, 231, 248) 0px -4px 0px inset;">revealed</a>&nbsp;Neuralink’s existence two years ago, the tech and neuroscience worlds have buzzed about what Musk’s team of brain-machine interface experts was up to.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wired.com/2017/03/elon-musks-neural-lace-really-look-like/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 3px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(180, 231, 248); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background 0.15s cubic-bezier(0.33, 0.66, 0.66, 1) 0s; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: rgb(180, 231, 248) 0px -4px 0px inset;">Other companies</a>, including&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/why-you-will-one-day-have-a-chip-in-your-brain/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 3px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(180, 231, 248); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background 0.15s cubic-bezier(0.33, 0.66, 0.66, 1) 0s; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: rgb(180, 231, 248) 0px -4px 0px inset;">Kernel</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wired.com/2017/04/facebooks-race-link-brain-computer-might-unwinnable/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 3px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(180, 231, 248); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background 0.15s cubic-bezier(0.33, 0.66, 0.66, 1) 0s; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: rgb(180, 231, 248) 0px -4px 0px inset;">Facebook</a>, announced they, too, were working on the technology, which has so far been used only in research and rare clinical settings. Darpa, the US government’s advanced-science division, has been funding brain-computer interface work&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165027014002702" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 3px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(180, 231, 248); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background 0.15s cubic-bezier(0.33, 0.66, 0.66, 1) 0s; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: rgb(180, 231, 248) 0px -4px 0px inset;">since the 1970s</a>, and the agency has been part of the government-wide Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (yes, the acronym is also “Brain”) since 2013.</font></font></p><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So it’s hard to know exactly how to calibrate Musk’s claims for a device that he plans to eventually stick into healthy people’s brains. “We hope to have this aspirationally in a human patient by the end of next year,” Musk said. The first volunteers, he hopes, will be people with quadriplegia, willing to have four chips implanted, three in the motor cortex of the brain (roughly running from above the ear to the top of the head) and on providing closed-loop feedback to the somatosensory cortex. That’s even though, according to an article distributed at the presentation—and not peer-reviewed—the Neuralink technology is so far only in the heads of 19 rats, and even then with only 87 percent of the electrodes successfully inserted. The FDA is going to want more than that before it approves human use.</font></font></p><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And, sure, there’s more. A public records request from WIRED in April 2019 found that Neuralink is licensed to have hundreds of rats and mice in its research facilities. In a seemingly unplanned moment at the Cal Academy, Musk also acknowledged that Neuralink’s research had progressed beyond rodents to non-human primates. It’s only because of a records request filed by&nbsp;<a href="https://gizmodo.com/neuralink-is-funding-primate-research-at-the-university-1826205424" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 3px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(180, 231, 248); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background 0.15s cubic-bezier(0.33, 0.66, 0.66, 1) 0s; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: rgb(180, 231, 248) 0px -4px 0px inset;">Gizmodo</a>&nbsp;that Neuralink’s affiliation with the primate research center at UC Davis is public knowledge. That affiliation has apparently progressed: “A monkey has been able to control a computer with its brain, just FYI,” Musk said during the Q and A after the presentation.</font></font></p><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His team seemed as surprised and discombobulated by the announcement as the audience. “I didn’t know we were running that result today, but there it goes,” said Max Hodak, president of the company, on stage next to Musk. (Monkeys have controlled computers via BCIs&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wired.com/2011/10/monkeys-control-virtual-limbs/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 3px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(180, 231, 248); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background 0.15s cubic-bezier(0.33, 0.66, 0.66, 1) 0s; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: rgb(180, 231, 248) 0px -4px 0px inset;">before</a>, though presumably this would be the first time one used Neuralink.)</font></font></p><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(A separate records request from WIRED in August of 2018 reveals that <b>Neuralink re-upped its deal with UC Davis </b>in June of that year, a month after the Gizmodo article. That relationship hasn’t always been entirely cordial; emails obtained by WIRED show that in June of 2018 John Morrison, director of the California National Primate Research Center at UC Davis, complained that Neuralink was trying to poach UC Davis staffers. “I realize that this is routine practice in the private sector, but I am a little surprised since my understanding is that there was an interest in developing scientific collaboration between Neuralink and the CNRPC,” Morrison wrote to a redacted contact apparently at Neuralink. “Hiring away personnel does not build a relationship.”)</font></font></p><div class="inset-left-component paywall fade-in-up" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 10px 0px 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 50px 50px 50px -50px; padding: 16px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 200px; clear: left; float: left; opacity: 1; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition: opacity 0.35s cubic-bezier(0.33, 0.66, 0.66, 1) 0s, transform 0.35s cubic-bezier(0.33, 0.66, 0.66, 1) 0s, -webkit-transform 0.35s cubic-bezier(0.33, 0.66, 0.66, 1) 0s; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h5 name="inset-left" class="inset-left-componentel" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.15s cubic-bezier(0.33, 0.66, 0.66, 1) 0s; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.08em; text-transform: uppercase;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font></h5></div><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The hardware Neuralink has developed is impressive. External, noninvasive technologies like electroencephalograms (EEGs) or functional magnetic resonance imaging tend not to have the kinds of resolution—across the brain and over time—to do things like control a computer. But the inside of the brain is an unfriendly place when it comes to electrodes, a briny soup that eats away at the hard, pointy bits neuroscientists have used for decades to listen in on synaptic chit-chat. Immune responses coat those electrodes with glial cells, defensive gunk that eventually renders them inoperative. The brain’s natural movements, its sloshing around and pulsing in time with heartbeats and breath, mean that implanted electrodes move around, too, eventually sliding off the nodes they’re meant to target. And maybe worst of all, unlike the cured, prepared specimens you might have seen in science class, living brains have the texture of Jell-O, whereas the kinds of electrodes best at picking up neural signals tend to be stiff and solid. Old-school electrodes have been known to&nbsp;<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/%20s41583-019-0140-6" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 3px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(180, 231, 248); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background 0.15s cubic-bezier(0.33, 0.66, 0.66, 1) 0s; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: rgb(180, 231, 248) 0px -4px 0px inset;">damage brain tissue</a>and go off-target as the brain moves around.</font></font></p><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Neuralink goes in a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6204648-Neuralink-White-Paper.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 3px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(180, 231, 248); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background 0.15s cubic-bezier(0.33, 0.66, 0.66, 1) 0s; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; box-shadow: rgb(180, 231, 248) 0px -4px 0px inset;">newer direction</a>, one neuroscientists only started to come around to in the last decade or so. The electrodes are made from a soft polymer. The thin threads that connect them to the chip allow, for now, more than 1,500 individual channels of recording, covering more neurons overall; that’s widely seen as a good thing in terms of collecting enough signal to interpret. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But the threads are too small for a human hand to insert, so Neuralink engineered a robotic system to insert individual threads in preset locations and at preset depths. Those then send signals wirelessly to a receiver that a person would wear like a behind-the-ear hearing aid, via Bluetooth. (The rats send their data via USB-C.) “The devices that we’re talking about, because of their high bandwidth and the ability to tailor the location of each electrode to a person’s individual anatomy, should be able to reach anywhere in the motor cortex,” said Philip Sabes, Neuralink’s senior scientist. “That would give us access to any movement a person thinks about.”</span></font></font></p><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At first, Sabes said, that’d mean the ability to control a computer keyboard or a mouse (after training via a smartphone app). Musk said he’d hope that someone could get up to 40 words per minute typing, a goal that would require remarkably low latency in the chip’s processing speed. And then later? Control of 3D avatars or complicated prosthetic arrays, maybe even the ability to receive haptic input—perceiving textures or pressure—and the kind of signals that deep-brain implants send to quiet the tremors of Parkinson’s disease or the compulsions of obsessive disorders. To be fair, Sabes didn’t show any of this data, and it’s not in the white paper the company handed out, either. It’s all, as Sabes said, aspirational. That was right before Musk said that if two people both had Neuralinks, they’d “effectively have a really high-bandwidth telepathy … potentially a new kind of communication, a conceptual telepathy. It would also be consensual.”</font></font></p><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The hardware could indeed be a leap forward for research. The resolution is high, though other groups have achieved numbers in the same ballpark, such as in a multi-institution project called&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24636" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 3px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(180, 231, 248); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background 0.15s cubic-bezier(0.33, 0.66, 0.66, 1) 0s; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: rgb(180, 231, 248) 0px -4px 0px inset;">Neuropixels</a>. “The problem was always the backend, which is just not a fun thesis project, so it had to be done outside universities,” says Polina Anikeeva, a materials scientist who works on neuroelectronics at MIT. “Designing a backend that would be reasonably sized and accommodate a few thousand channels is an engineering challenge unsuitable for academic environments and, most importantly, budgets.”</font></font></p><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That, along with a reliable implantation robot, might even bring some Silicon Valley–style disruption to the world of brain-machine interfaces. “The robot looks real, the ASIC [application-specific integrated circuit] looks real, the implantable package looks real,” Andrew Hires, a neuroscientist at the University of Southern California,&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewHires/status/1151364595853844486" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 3px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(180, 231, 248); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background 0.15s cubic-bezier(0.33, 0.66, 0.66, 1) 0s; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: rgb(180, 231, 248) 0px -4px 0px inset;">tweeted</a>&nbsp;during the presentation. But, he said, “The closed-loop applications are vaporware.” Which is to say, beyond existing deep-brain stimulation technologies and rudimentary input, the stuff about feeding input back into a brain—writing as opposed to just reading—is still as far away as Mars.</font></font></p><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>People just don’t know enough about how the brain works to impinge upon it, to make a brain do something it didn’t plan on.</b> Sabes talked about stimulating specific parts of the “maps” in the visual cortex for things like edges and movement, to create projections on the inside surface of the mind’s eye. “Our understanding of brain circuits and ability to interpret neural signals is rather rudimentary, and any technology developed right now would better serve basic neuroscience before we can think about applying it in a medical context,” Anikeeva says.</font></font></p><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A decade ago, when a team of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine tried to induce&nbsp;<a href="https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0960982208000183" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 3px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(180, 231, 248); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background 0.15s cubic-bezier(0.33, 0.66, 0.66, 1) 0s; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: rgb(180, 231, 248) 0px -4px 0px inset;">color percepts</a>&nbsp;in a person with an electrode array implanted as part of treatment for recurring seizures, they couldn’t do much better than induce bluish-purple, and even that was amazing. “We have basic knowledge, a lot of basic knowledge, and a lot of imaging techniques,” says Nataliya Kosmyna, a computer scientist working on brain-computer interfaces at the MIT Media Lab. “But where do you want to write, to which part? What do you want to have in that signal?”</font></font></p><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Those problems might come to seem small compared to finding out just how biocompatible and long-lasting those polymer electrodes are in a living brain—or how results in rats will translate to primates. Engineering challenges remain. "Are you talking about the ultimate end goal of what Elon is saying, a third layer of interface for the brain? Is it going to do that? No, not even close," Hires says. "But is it a step toward that, and can it advance the field in a meaningful way? Well, as long as they can get it through safety and regulatory approval, I think so."<span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; top: -0.5em;">1</span>&nbsp;Figuring out how the brain works is one of the core ways science can help us humans understand ourselves better, and it might even humanize the coming world of machines and machine learning, or conversely machine-ize a world that’s still all too human. But Neuralink isn’t there yet. That’s all still aspirational.</font></font></p></div><div><ul class="post-listing-componentlist" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none;"><li class="post-listing-list-itempost" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 16px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; display: block;"><div class="post-listing-list-itemdescription" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">elon musk</font></font><h5 class="post-listing-list-itemtitle" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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