Elon Musk says second Neuralink brain implant ‘to give people superpowers’ in a week

Neuralink aims its device into a second human patient in a week or so, the brain-computer startup’s founder Elon Musk said. The company hopes to have devices in patients numbering “in the high single digits” by the end of the year, he said during a broadcast on social media platform X (formerly Twitter). The billionaire and several key Neuralink executives reflected on the capabilities and future possibilities of the brain chip device like repairing paralysis and memory loss.

The team also talked about steps that would be taken in future surgeries to avoid some setbacks that occurred in the first implantation of brain chip on Arizona man Noland Arbaugh. Elon Musk said that the long-term goal “is to mitigate the longer civilizational risk of AI” and Neuralink can help with that by creating “a closer symbiosis between human intelligence and digital intelligence.”