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Watch Neuralink’s First Human Subject Demonstrate His Brain-Computer Interface


In a livestream on X, the paralyzed 49-year-old man used his Neuralink brain implant to control a computer.

In a brief livestream on the social media platform X, the man said he’s able to play online chess and the video game Civilization using the Neuralink device. The company received a greenlight from the US Food and Drug Administration last year to move ahead with an initial human trial and began recruiting paralyzed participants in the fall to test the device. “Progress is good and the patient seems to have made a full recovery, with no ill effects that we are aware of,” Musk said on February 19 in a Spaces audio conversation on X, in response to a question about the participant’s condition.

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