The man with a mind-reading chip in his brain - thanks to Elon Musk

The man with a mind-reading chip in his brain - thanks to Elon Musk 10 hours ago Share Save Lara Lewington, Liv McMahon & Tom Gerken BBC News Share Save BBC Having a chip in your brain that can translate your thoughts into computer commands may sound like science fiction - but it is a reality for Noland Arbaugh. In January 2024 - eight years after he was paralysed - the 30-year-old became the first person to get such a device from the US neurotechnology firm, Neuralink. It was not the first such chip - a handful of other companies have also developed and implanted them - but Noland's inevitably attracts more attention because of Neuralink's founder: Elon Musk. But Noland says the important thing is neither him nor Musk - but the science. He told the BBC he knew the risks of what he was doing - but "good or bad, whatever may be, I would be helping". "If everything worked out, then I could help being a participant of Neuralink," he said. "If something terrible happened, I knew they wo ... Read full article.