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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    9 months ago

    I don’t see Neuralink taking the legal risk, regardless of what the FDA says. The approval is part of the publicity stunt IMO.

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      9 months ago

      I don’t think they’d care about the legal risk from people who’d sign up. However it’d be pretty bad publicity having them all die

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        9 months ago

        Hey now, that’s not fair. Some of them might just end up paralyzed or brain dead.