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Neuralink’s human trials volunteers ‘should have serious concerns,’ say medical experts (www.popsci.com)
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Neuralink’s human trials volunteers ‘should have serious concerns,’ say medical experts::A medical ethics committee responded to Elon Musk's brain-interface startup issuing an open call for patients yesterday.

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[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Didn't Neuralink fail animal testing? Something about most of their monkeys dying from the trials? How did this get to human testing?

[–] garretble@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

There an article in Wired just this week I think about how horrid the experiments on the animal were.

Musk, of course, lied again saying the monkeys were old and going to be euthanized anyway. They were young, and the experiments were terrible for them — where they were clawing at their heads trying to remove the devices. Some had literal screws coming loose.

[–] Bagel5941@aussie.zone 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Reading this story I decided to boycott everything related to Elon Musk.

Additional veterinary reports show the condition of a female monkey called “Animal 15” during the months leading up to her death in March 2019. Days after her implant surgery, she began to press her head against the floor for no apparent reason; a symptom of pain or infection, the records say. Staff observed that though she was uncomfortable, picking and pulling at her implant until it bled, she would often lie at the foot of her cage and spend time holding hands with her roommate.

Animal 15 began to lose coordination, and staff observed that she would shake uncontrollably when she saw lab workers. Her condition deteriorated for months until the staff finally euthanized her. A necropsy report indicates that she had bleeding in her brain and that the Neuralink implants left parts of her cerebral cortex “focally tattered.”

[–] triclops6@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

Thanks for this. Never buying anything of his now

[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I don't understand how researchers could see that and allow it to continue. What kind of sociopath do you have to be to knowingly, continually torture an animal like that, especially for something this fucking stupid?

[–] oleorun@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

And Animal 15 was still smarter than charlie kirk

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