Thousands of people have expressed interest in receiving one of Neuralink’s brain implants, a recent Bloomberg report from one of Elon Musk’s biographers, Ashlee Vance, says.
Vance, who said he visited Neuralink’s facilities 10 times in three years, said the company had yet to implant its device in a human but aimed to operate on 11 people next year and more than 22,000 by 2030.
Earlier this year, the US Food and Drug Administration gave Neuralink, which Musk cofounded in 2016, approval to launch human trials of its device that Musk has described as a “Fitbit in your skull.” The FDA had previously rejected Neuralink’s bid for human testing in March over safety concerns, Reuters reported, including that the wires connected to the brain chip could move within a subject’s head or that the chip could overheat.





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