Neuralink brain chip: What is Elon Musk’s plan to merge humans with computers and how will it help?
by Andrew Griffin
Mar 21, 2024
3 minutes
Elon Musk has said his brain-computer interface company, Neuralink, has implanted its first device into humans.
Eventually, Mr Musk hopes that the system can be used to merge humans with computers, allowing them to interact with artificial intelligence simply by thinking, for instance.
But for now it is seemingly being used on people with quadriplegia, to allow them to interact with devices simply by thinking.
Mr Musk says that the first person in history to receive one of Neuralink’s brain chips in their head has now done so. While he
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