Elon Musk Wants to Create Direct Human Connections to Computers During a recent presentation at the California Academy<br />of Sciences, Elon Musk described his new goal of<br />creating “symbiosis with artificial intelligence.” He plans to achieve this by implanting<br />chips into human brains, allowing them<br />to “merge” with artificial intelligence (AI). The chips receive and process brain<br />activity through "neural lace," which<br />is robotically stitched into the brain. According to Musk, animal testing is already<br />underway and he believes the first prototype could<br />be implanted in a human by the end of 2020. The project is being executed by his company,<br />Neuralink Corp, which was founded in 2016. The initial goal of his “ultra-high bandwidth<br />brain-machine interfaces” was to help with<br />symptoms of chronic conditions, but Musk also intends for the chip to be used<br />to “create a well-aligned future” and to secure<br />“humanity’s future as a civilization relative to AI.” Elon Musk, via<br />Neuralink Corp
