Neuralink’s human trials volunteers ‘should have serious concerns,’ say medical experts::A medical ethics committee responded to Elon Musk’s brain-interface startup issuing an open call for patients yesterday.

  • no surprises@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    This is a publicity stunt to get more funding.

    It would be if the FDA hadn’t approved this. This is the most puzzling part.

    • nodsocket@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I don’t see Neuralink taking the legal risk, regardless of what the FDA says. The approval is part of the publicity stunt IMO.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t think they’d care about the legal risk from people who’d sign up. However it’d be pretty bad publicity having them all die