Elon Musk’s brain computer interface (BCI) company Neuralink is being investigated by law enforcement authorities in the US amid allegations of animal welfare violations in its testing facilities.
Neuralink has already enabled a quadriplegic to interact with a computer using only his thoughts and aims to restore vision, motor function, and speech. Musk was also a founder of OpenAI.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has awarded a "Breakthrough Device" status to Neuralink’s experimental vision-restoring implant, Blindsight. This designation is intended to fast-track ...