Elon Musk’s Neuralink has been given the green light to set up a clinical trial

Eight millimeters thick for a chip, which could soon be implanted in your brain. Neuralink, the start-up of billionaire Elon Musk, has just obtained the agreement of the American health authorities, to test brain implants on humans. Connected devices, which will make it possible to communicate with computers directly via thought. The first tests were carried out on animals. A monkey equipped with an implant in the brain, is able to move the cursor of a video game, only by the thought and the movement of the eyes.

Many ethical questions

To achieve this breakthrough, Neuralink, for example, recorded the impulses generated by its neurons on a moving pig. The implant is then able to understand the muscular activity of the animal and could recreate it via a machine. Something to give hope to many paralyzed people. Neuralink wants to extend this technology to everyone, by connecting humans to their machine. A dive into the future that raises many ethical questions.