Elon Musk: Neuralink Aims to Enhance Human Capabilities to Compete with AI

Elon Musk claims that Neuralink brain implants will be the most effective way for humans to both integrate with and compete against advanced AI systems in the future. Neuralink, founded by Musk, is working on advanced brain-implanted microchips designed to record and simulate brain activity. The company aims to use this technology to treat neurological disorders and enhance natural senses such as vision shortly.

“Let’s give people superpowers,” he said in a recent podcast interview with computer scientist Lex Friedman.

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Neuralink: From Thought-Controlled Devices to Enhancing AI Safety

Musk said the company embedded a Neuralink chip into the brain of its first patient in January 2024. Weeks later, the company said the patient was able to control a computer mouse using just their thoughts. Musk said the company has since embedded a chip into a second patient.

Musk has billed Neuralink as a technology that, in the future, could facilitate “symbiosis” between humans and artificial intelligence. In his conversation with Friedman, Musk said Neuralink chips could be the best way to prevent AI from surpassing humans and going off the rails all “Terminator” style.

“It’s an idea that may help with AI safety,” he said. “We could better align collective human will with AI if the output rate especially was dramatically increased. And I think there’s potential to increase the output rate by, I don’t know, three, maybe six, maybe more orders of magnitude. So, it’s better than the current situation.”

The world’s biggest tech companies are in a race to develop artificial general intelligence, which is a theoretical future technology in which AI can reason like humans. The idea has been met with no small amount of concern. Musk himself has criticized OpenAI, the world’s leading AI company, which he helped found, for being too aggressive and not adequately considering the importance of safety.

Neuralink’s Potential to Revolutionize Health

Musk said Neuralink devices will eventually be able to repair damaged neurons to help people with issues like blindness and paralysis.

“It can also solve, probably, schizophrenia if people have seizures of some kind,” Musk said on the podcast. “It could probably solve that and could help with memory.”

He added that Neuralink’s aim isn’t just to give people with neurological damage a full range of communication but to enhance their already natural abilities. He even suggested that a person using Neuralink might eventually have vision that is “higher resolution than human eyes.”

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