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Neuralink’s human trials volunteers ‘should have serious concerns,’ say medical experts (www.popsci.com)
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Neuralink’s human trials volunteers ‘should have serious concerns,’ say medical experts::A medical ethics committee responded to Elon Musk's brain-interface startup issuing an open call for patients yesterday.

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[–] nodsocket@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't see Neuralink taking the legal risk, regardless of what the FDA says. The approval is part of the publicity stunt IMO.

[–] heird@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think they'd care about the legal risk from people who'd sign up. However it'd be pretty bad publicity having them all die

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey now, that's not fair. Some of them might just end up paralyzed or brain dead.