Read previewNeuralink's first patient, Noland Arbaugh, said he did his research before he decided to get the brain implant, including looking into the reports of animal testing gone awry.
AdvertisementBefore Elon Musk's company Neuralink began human testing, the company shared demos of monkeys and pig test subjects using the implant.
"No monkey has died as a result of a Neuralink implant," Musk wrote on X in September.
"It's hard to describe something in your brain," Arbaugh said.
Neuralink began recruiting for human trials last year and unveiled its first human patient earlier this month.
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