Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup conducted years of tests at UC Davis, a public university. A WIRED investigation reveals how Neuralink and the university keep the grisly images of test subjects hidden.

How Neuralink Keeps Dead Monkey Photos Secret::Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup conducted years of tests at UC Davis, a public university. A WIRED investigation reveals how Neuralink and the university keep the grisly images of test subjects hidden.

  • The Snark Urge@lemmy.worldEnglish
    58·
    1 year ago

    I want to see footage of him sitting with a congressional hearing while footage of monkeys scrommiting to death plays on live TV.

    I wish he would get sentenced to using his own products.

    • BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      1 year ago

      I’d say it should be a requirement for human integration tech that the CEO has to be willing to get the first one launched. But then there will also be people like the Titan sub guy who care nothing for their life either.

          • Mirshe@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            The issue is that they went to great lengths to cover up how many animals died in their testing, had no plans for long-term care after the testing that anyone can find or produce, and generally acted flagrantly against most every guideline of ethical animal testing in the civilized world.

          • The Snark Urge@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            If you pay someone to do harm, it’s still commonly considered that you have caused that harm. I don’t see how this differs in real moral terms.

            And I don’t care whether it’s legal, that has never been a moral basis for anything.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Did you every see the Kids in the Hall movie Brain Candy? The big evil CEO runs a pharmaceutical company and he makes all of his employees eat copious amounts of the pill his company developed.