A medical ethics group is demanding that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission investigate Neuralink founder Elon Musk after new details emerged about the grisly deaths of monkeys involved in testing.
Neuralink is trying to create a chip that can be inserted into a human brain, allowing users to interact with computers. The implants were first tested on monkeys to ensure their safety before the first human trial, which was approved this week. Musk had assured the public that the testing on monkeys had been extremely careful, and none had died as a result of the implants. A recent Wired investigation suggests the contrary, however.
"Musk knows that to be false. Public records obtained by the Physicians Committee reveal that at least 12 young, previously healthy monkeys were euthanized by Neuralink as a direct result of problems with the company’s implant," the letter read. “They are claiming they are going to put a safe device on the market, and that’s why you should invest,” Ryan Merkley, head of the Physicians Committee for a Responsible Medicine’s research into animal-testing alternatives, told Wired. “And we see his lie as a way to whitewash what happened in these exploratory studies.”
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