Originally posted on Quora June 5, 2023
We are excited to share that we have received the FDA’s approval to launch our first-in-human clinical study!
— Neuralink (@neuralink) May 25, 2023
This is the result of incredible work by the Neuralink team in close collaboration with the FDA and represents an important first step that will one day allow our…
Within 2 months of rejecting clinical trials for BMIs the FDA has made an about-face and approved human testing. So who got paid off or is looking for a new career at Neuralink after their FDA gig?
As I mentioned last year, the botched BMI experiments on monkeys killed an estimated 185–371 monkeys and 25 hogs; the true number may never be known as it has been concealed behind a wall of proprietary information. The human trials have been approved for less than 10 patients but even one human death for an experimental mind control device would be too many.