Elon Musk’s Brain Chip Company Approved for Human Testing

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Elon MuskThe Neuralink company announced late today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave him the green light to experiment with implanting brain chips in humans.

We are pleased to announce that we have received FDA approval to launch our first human clinical study!

This is the result of incredible work done by the Neuralink team in close collaboration with the FDA and represents an important first step that will one day allow our…

—Neuralink (@neuralink) May 25, 2023

The company, founded in 2016 and financed primarily by billionaire Musk, develops electronic implants that decode brain activity and communicate it to computers. While other companies have used brain implants to help people with debilitating medical conditions like paralysis and ALS, Neuralink’s brain chips have only been used in monkeys.

But that will soon change.

musk said, “I think we have an opportunity with Neuralink to restore full-body functionality to someone who has a spinal cord injury.” But he and the company also want to take the technology a step further, maximizing the potential for healthy people to keep up with artificial intelligence.

“We want to exceed human performance without disabilities with our technology”, Neuralink tweeted last month.

Related: Elon Musk’s Neuralink is under investigation for allegedly endangering human safety

‘The future is going to be strange.’

Musk said he envisions a world where patients can walk through clinics to have a robot surgically implant a chip into their brains. “You’ll be able to save and replay memories,” he said at a show-and-tell presentation last year. “The future is going to be strange.”

He also predicts that customers will want to regularly upgrade their brain chips to the latest models.

“I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t want iPhone 1 sitting on your head if iPhone 14 is out,” Musk said.

Musk is so sure that the devices are safe that he would be willing to implant them in his children.

It is not yet clear whether the brain implants will pass the FDA’s rigorous testing stage. Still, the announcement is a major step forward for Musk’s business empire and brain-computer interface technology.