Elon Musk’s Neuralink is neuroscience theater – via MIT Technology Review (and 2 videos:) – Technology vs Humanity: the coming clash of man and machine

“On a species level, it’s important to figure out how we co-exist with advanced AI, achieving some AI symbiosis,” said Musk. “Such that the future of world is controlled by the combined will of the people of the earth. That might be the morst important thing that a device like this achieves.””
Elon Musk’s Neuralink is neuroscience theater – MIT Technology Review www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/30/1007786/elon-musks-neuralink-demo-update-neuroscience-theater/

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