Musk claims Neuralink patient doing OK with implant, can move mouse with brain
Medical ethicists alarmed by Musk being "sole source of information" on patient.
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Enlarge / A Neuralink implant. (credit: Neuralink)
Neuralink co-founder Elon Musk said the first human to be implanted with the company's brain chip is now able to move a mouse cursor just by thinking.
"Progress is good, and the patient seems to have made a full recovery, with no ill effects that we are aware of. Patient is able to move a mouse around the screen by just thinking," Musk said Monday during an X Spaces event, according to Reuters.
Musk's update came a few weeks after he announced that Neuralink implanted a chip into the human. The previous update was also made on X, the Musk-owned social network formerly named Twitter.
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