Looking for employees - and volunteers?

Elon Musk — the SpaceX founder, Tesla CEO, and, most recently, Twitter owner — hosted a flashy event on Wednesday night for yet another one of his companies: Neuralink, the startup proposing implants that connect your brain to a computer.

Neuralink said it was able to allow monkeys to play the video game Pong using only their brain implants, though something similar had already been accomplished in a human with a brain implant more than a decade prior. Musk touted footage of the monkey playing Pong again on Wednesday.

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Musk noted during the “show and tell” event that the primary goal of the evening was to recruit talent to Neuralink.

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The company has acknowledged that a monkey had died during the testing process.

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Before Neuralink’s brain implants are mass produced and hit the broader market, they’ll need regulatory approval.

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Musk said Wednesday that Neuraink has submitted “most” of its paperwork to the FDA and could begin testing on humans within six months.

  CNN

The startup that Elon Musk founded to implant computer chips in people’s brains has admitted that it killed eight monkeys during research experiments.

The revelation comes in response to a legal complaint from a group that opposes medical testing on animals.

  Fortune

Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface company Neuralink is being accused of subjecting monkey test subjects to “extreme suffering” by a well-regarded animal rights group. All told, Neuralink’s early experiments have utilized 23 monkeys — and only 8 of them have survived the experience.

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The stories told in the PCRM’s report — which were obtained through California’s public records — are enough to make anyone sick.

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One example quoted by the Post describes that one monkey was found missing some of its fingers and toes. The report says this may have been the result of “self-mutilation or some other unspecified form of trauma.” That monkey was eventually killed during a “terminal procedure.”

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“Pretty much every single monkey that had implants put in their head suffered from pretty debilitating health effects,” said Jeremy Beckham, research advocacy director at the PCRM. “They were, frankly, maiming and killing the animals.”

  Inverse

Elon Musk said on Wednesday he expects a wireless brain chip developed by his company Neuralink to begin human clinical trials in six months, after the company missed earlier timelines set by him.

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The event was originally planned for Oct. 31 but Musk postponed it just days before without giving a reason.

  Reuters

More dead monkeys?

So...15 dead monkeys. Eight live ones. And no information on the quality of life for those eight.  

After experiments on 23 monkeys - and the lion's share of those failures - Musk wants to start human experiments.  I expect he can get volunteers on Twitter.

And, while we're cautioning folks, perhaps anyone thinking about working at Neuralink should first talk to the ranks fired, voluntarily resigned, and the skeleton crew remaining at Twitter about having Musk as a boss.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.