Horrors of Elon Musks Neuralink REVEALED including brain hacking technology and animal deaths… – The Scottish Sun

ELON Musk has faced immense scrutiny for horrific and unethical experiments, as scientists express concern.

In 2016, the worlds richest man founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology company that hopes to soon implant chips into peoples brains.

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Dubbed Link, the chip would monitor, and even stimulate brain activity.

Most notably, it holds promise for the restoration of sensory and motor function and the treatment of neurological disorders, according to Musk.

Thats just one of several claims the billionaire has made regarding the work that Neuralink is conducting.

However, the reality of the situation may be a bit grimmer than Musk lets on, according to experts.

Heres everything we know about Neuralink.

Earlier this year, Neuralink confirmed that at least some of the 23 macaque monkeys involved in Link experiments either died from trauma or euthanization.

The experiments were conducted from 2017 to 2020, and even prompted the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine to file a complaint againstNeuralink for subjecting monkeys to abuse.

Facial trauma, seizures, and loss of toes and fingers were just some of the trauma the animals endured, according to the Physicians Committeereport.

Shortly after the report was filed, many animal activists took to social media to publicly decry Musk and Neuralink as unethical.

Researchers and scientists have expressed both fear and horror at Musks goalof connecting human brains to computers.

This mainly stems from many questions regarding the safety of the devices.

What Ive seen in the field is were really good at implanting [the devices], Dr. Laura Cabrera, who researches neuroethics at Penn State told The Daily Beast.

But if something goes wrong, we really dont have the technology toexplantthem safely without damaging the brain.

Meanwhile, Dr. Johnson of SUNY Upstate, questioned whether the science backs Musks vision at all.

If Neuralink is claiming that theyll be able to use their device therapeutically to help disabled persons, theyre overpromising because theyre a long way from being able to do that, Johnson said.

Other reasonable concerns include the misuse of this technology for profit.

I dont think there is sufficient public discourse on what the big picture implications of this kind of technology becoming available [are], said Dr. Karola Kreitmair, assistant professor of medical history and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

I worry that theres this uncomfortable marriage between a company that is for-profit and these medical interventions that hopefully are there to help people, she added.

Dr. L. Syd Johnson, an associate professor in the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University, also worries that human research subjects are being exploited and used in risky research for someone elses commercial gain.

Our brain is our last bastion of freedom, our last place for privacy, said Dr. Nita Farahany, a scholar on emerging technologies at the Duke University School of Law.

However, the device carries a risk of misuse by corporations, by governments, by so-called bad actors, Farahany added.

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