On 16th of July, Elon Musk who is the founder of SpaceX and co-founder of Tesla has introduced Neuralink, a neurotechnology company that has been working on connecting the human brain with computer interfaces for the last two years. According to Musk, even in “a benign AI scenario” humans will be left behind but with a high bandwidth brain-machine interface technology, we can effectively have the option merging with AI. Even more exciting, in the future humans may have the option to “achieve a symbiosis with artificial intelligence”. 

Neuralink’s primary goal is to understand and cure important diseases and eventually to help secure humanity’s future by preserving and enhancing the brain. So, Neuralink aims to create a well-aligned future -the future of “superhuman intelligence”. With this technology, brain-related diseases will be possible to address and neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, OCD, epilepsy can be curable. Musk says that the operation will be “as simple and automated as Lasik (laser eye surgery).” and the patient can walk away within a few hours. The treads are remarkably tiny, about a tenth of the cross-sectional area of a human hair, and therefore the operation will be done with robots to be very precise. The device will be completely wireless and long-lasting. “The interface to the chip is wireless so you have no wires poking out of your head…It’s Bluetooth to your phone,” says Musk.