brain implants

A recent letter by democratic senators is sounding the alarm on data harvesting by companies developing brain implants.

Mind Your Data

Not even your thoughts are safe.

Brain Implant Companies Apparently Have an Extremely Dirty Secret

A big red flag, according to researchers, is that Neuralink has barely been sharing any information at all.

Missing Link

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"[Neuralink is] only sharing the bits that they want us to know about."

Doctors Concerned About Neuralink's First Patient

Congress members have urged the SEC to investigate Elon Musk for lying about how monkeys were treated at Neuralink.

Hide and SEC

Elon Musk may be guilty of securities fraud, they argue.

Lawmakers Demand Investigation Into Carnage at Neuralink

Neuralink scientists kept the monkey alive even thought it was clear that it was already terminal from its severe brain swelling.

Cerebral Horrors

And Neuralink really doesn't want you to see the photos.

Autopsy Found That Neuralink Implant "Ruptured" Monkey's Brain

An investigation by Wired reveals the grisly complications of Neuralink brain implants in monkeys, including brain swelling and paralysis.

Death Toll

Devices

This is horrifying.

Terrible Things Happened to Monkeys After Getting Neuralink Implants, According to Veterinary Records

The device not only converts brain signals into text, but transforms it into full-blown speech embodied in a digtal look-a-like.

Mental Speeds

"Our goal is to restore a full, embodied way of communicating."

New Brain Implant Allows Paralyzed Patient to Communicate Through Digital Avatar

UNESCO cautioned that AI has seen "warp speed" advances in neurotechnology that can read your mind, raising human rights concerns.

Thought Police

"We are on a path to a world in which algorithms will enable us to decode people's mental processes."

UN Warns That AI-Powered Brain Implants Could Spy on Our Innermost Thoughts

A woman whose epilepsy was greatly improved by an experimental brain implant was devastated when she was forced to have it removed.

Repo Man

"I would have done anything to keep it."

Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will

A pair of philosophers sounded the alarm on the dystopian applications they see being ushered in by brain-computer interface (BCI) technology.

WELP

They "could change us irrevocably."

Experts Warn: Brain-Computer Interfaces Will Usher In the Singularity

researchers claim in a study published last month in Cells Report Physical Sciences that they've developed a way to charge the implants solely through breathing movements — potentially making them completely self-sufficient.

Ecstatic Power

Brain power? How about breathing power.

Scientists Build Brain Implant Powered Completely by User's Breathing

Another of Neuralink's cofounders has left the neurotechnology company amid an apparent slow exodus of the Elon Musk venture's executives.

Drama

It doesn't seem to be going well at Neuralink, folks! 

Neuralink Cofounder Leaves as Brain Company Descends Into Chaos

A 34-year-old paralyzed man, who even lost the ability to move his eyes due to ALS disease, is able to communicate again through a brain implant.

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