Neuralink is developing a brain implant which it hopes will help paralysed people walk again, but whistleblowers claim animal testing at its labs is not following guidelines.
Earlier this year, a Neuralink executive reportedly sent staff a news article about Swiss researchers who developed an electrical implant that helped a man to walk again.Reuters also claimed that - on several occasions - Musk told employees to imagine they had a bomb strapped to their heads in an effort to get them to move faster.
Many companies routinely use animals in experiments to advance human healthcare, and they face financial pressure to quickly bring products to market. But current and former Neuralink employees say the number of animal deaths there is higher than it needs to be. At the time of its launch, Mr Musk said they had three pigs with two coin-sized implants each, and he described them as"healthy, happy and indistinguishable from a normal pig".
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