Someone tell Elon Musk that Black Mirror isn’t an instruction manual: Elon Musk unveiled during a presentation his frankly bizarre plans to put hundreds of chip implants into our brains (watch, runtime: 18:28). Neuralink is composed of around 1k thread-like chips that are one tenth the width of a human hair, which are inserted into the brain by a robot. The chips will allow the brain to directly interact with smartphones, “achieving a symbiosis with artificial intelligence.” Musk has previously argued for radical solutions to prevent his apocalyptic vision of artificial superintelligence from becoming reality. The company plans to test the technology on a human subject for the first time next year.

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