Important Takeaways:

• Rage against the machine: Americans warn Elon Musk to ‘stop creating cyborgs’ after he revealed the first human has had Neuralink’s brain chip
• Elon Musk has left even his most ardent fans terrified after he revealed his tech start-up Neuralink has become the first to successfully implant a microchip into a human brain.
• The device – called ‘Telepathy’ will ‘enable control of your phone or computer, and through them almost any device, just by thinking’, he said.
• But many of his 170 million followers on X, formerly Twitter, accused him of ‘mind control’, creating ‘cyborgs’, and even ‘playing God’.
• Initial users will be those who have lost the use of their limbs. Imagine if Stephen Hawking could communicate faster than a speed typist or auctioneer. That is the goal.’
• The company aims to implant microchips into the brains of paralyzed people, and allow them to move their bodies using their thoughts.
• It comes less than a year after Neuralink got Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance to operate on humans, a critical milestone for the startup.
• Musk wrote on X on Monday night: ‘The first human received an implant from @Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well. Initial results show promising neuron spike detection.’

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