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The first human being to be fitted with Elon Musk’s controversial Neuralink brain-computer interface has admitted the danger of it being hacked is real.
Noland Arbaugh, 29, was paralysed from the neck down after a diving accident at a Christian youth camp in June 2016. He volunteered to the experimental procedure in which a computer-controlled “sewing machine” stitched electrodes directly into his brain tissue.
The procedure, which took place under just a local anaesthetic, doesn’t even require an overnight hospital procedure, according to Neuralink boss Elon Musk.
But Noland Arbaugh is relaxed about the possibility of being hacked, telling Joe Rogan: “At this point, at least hacking, [the Neuralink interface] wouldn’t really do much.
“You might be able to see some of the brain signals, you might be see some of the data that Link’s collecting and then you might be able to control my cursor on my screen and make me look at weird stuff but that’s about it.”
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