Investors’ ‘dumb transhumanist ideas’ setting back neurotech progress, say experts
by Aisha Down from Science | The Guardian on (#71BQJ)
Fascination of investors such as Elon Musk with uploading their brains to computers is hindering progress in curing disease, say scientists
It has been an excellent year for neurotech, if you ignore the people funding it. In August, a tiny brain implant successfully decoded the inner speech of paralysis patients. In October, an eye implant restored sight to patients who had lost their vision.
It would just be better, say experts, if the most famous investors in the space - tech magnates such as Elon Musk and OpenAI's Sam Altman - were less interested in uploading their brains to computers or merging with AI.
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