Would you let Elon Musk stick a microchip in your brain? On Sunday, the billionaire’s Neuralink start-up put its first human test subject under the knife. The anonymous patient had a tiny chip inserted under their skull, entwining the minute filaments from the processor into their brain.
Musk hopes the patient will now be able to send instructions to the implant using thoughts alone.
The chip, or “brain-computer interface”, which Neuralink began developing in 2016, promises to change the lives of people with disabilities that prevent them from moving or communicating.
