[ExI] Elon Musk wants to implant millions with Neuralink brain chips

[efc at disroot.org]

On Fri, 23 Aug 2024, BillK via extropy-chat wrote:

> Elon Musk wants to implant millions of people with Neuralink brain chips
> Story by Anthony Cuthbertson   22 Aug 2024
>
> <https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/elon-musk-wants-to-implant-millions-of-pegooople-with-neuralink-brain-chips/ar-AA1peUxe>
> Quote:
> “If all goes well, there will be hundreds of people with Neuralinks
> within a few years, maybe tens of thousands within five years,
> millions within 10 years,” Mr Musk wrote on X in response to
> Neuralink’s blog post.
>
> The Prime study has focussed on people with quadriplegia, though Mr
> Musk claims the technology will one day allow humans to merge with
> artificial intelligence in order to augment brain and body
> performance.
> -------------------
>
> Well. I hope they protect their heads from cyber attacks by then.
> Also, solar flares or EMP attacks could interfere with the implants.
> If everybody is relying on implants, could their destruction turn
> everybody into zombies?
> Even now, if all the smartphones were suddenly destroyed, many people
> would be pretty helpless.

Isn't this old news? Haven't people tampered with breaks in teslas and 
aren't people with pacemakers susceptible to electronic interference?

Best regards,
Daniel


> BillK
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