---
title: "Elon Musk Just Confirmed That He’s Making Tech To Merge Human Brains and Computers"
description: "Elon Musk confirmed via Twitter that he's working on a brain-computer interface venture company called Neuralink — his proposed solution to an AI doomsday."
date: "2017-03-28"
modified: "2017-04-04"
authors:
  - name: "Abby Norman"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/abby"
url: "https://futurism.com/elon-musk-just-confirmed-that-hes-making-tech-to-merge-human-brains-and-computers"
categories:
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
  - "Elon Musk"
  - "Future Society"
  - "The Industrialists"
tags:
  - "artificial intelligence"
  - "brain computer interface"
  - "elon musk"
  - "neuralink"
---

# Elon Musk Just Confirmed That He’s Making Tech To Merge Human Brains and Computers

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/brain-1845944_1920-1.jpg>)
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## Neuralink

Elon Musk is a very future-oriented tech entrepreneur, as evidenced by Tesla and SpaceX. Even so, Musk has always been vocal about his fear of a world take over [by artificial intelligence (AI)](<https://futurism.com/4-elon-musk-talks-tesla-ai-and-more-in-dubai>). Curiously enough, his solution to keep the AI doomsday away is to merge the human brain with machines.

On Monday, Futurism [reported on Musk's new venture](<https://futurism.com/elon-musk-just-launched-a-company-to-merge-your-brain-with-a-computer>) to turn his proposed brain-computer interface into a reality. Musk confirmed his plan Tuesday via Twitter, saying more details about it are coming next week.

Long Neuralink piece coming out on [@waitbutwhy](<https://twitter.com/waitbutwhy>) in about a week. Difficult to dedicate the time, but existential risk is too high not to.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) [March 28, 2017](<https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/846580443797368832>)

Musk's brain-hacking company is called [Neuralink](<https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-launches-neuralink-to-connect-brains-with-computers-1490642652>), which was founded to help human beings keep up with the cascading advancements in AI technology. This company will develop a device, or even a series of devices, that could be implanted into the human brain. It's similar to [a controversial idea Musk put forward](<https://youtu.be/ZrGPuUQsDjo>) [back in 2016](<https://youtu.be/ZrGPuUQsDjo>) called a "neural lace;" an idea he revisited earlier this year [at the World Government Summit in Dubai](<https://futurism.com/elon-musks-and-the-need-for-symbiosis-with-machines>).

## Meta-Intelligent Humans

Musk isn't the only one who sees the future of humanity as being one with machines: Peter Diamandis, founder and chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, had previously expressed [his vision for meta-intelligent human beings](<https://singularityhub.com/2016/12/21/exponential-growth-will-transform-humanity-in-the-next-30-years/>). As our brains merge with machines, a new kind of intelligence would emerge.

> Such a massive interconnection will lead to the emergence of a new global consciousness, and a new organism I call the Meta

> — Intelligence." — Peter Diamandis

Efforts to realize this human-machine merger are also on the way — and not just with Neuralink. The U.S. Defense Department's research arm, DARPA, is also working on similar technologies. “We are giving our physiology the opportunity to work with machines in a different way,” [said Justin Sanchez](<https://futurism.com/darpa-were-moving-to-merge-humans-and-machines>), director of DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office.

Instead of being completely overrun by intelligent machines, why not let our intelligence be merged with machines? Armed with a whole new kind of intelligence, we may be capable of far more than avoiding an AI doomsday scenario. Though, that's not a bad place to start.