Elon Musk says he’s going to have Neuralink's brain chip installed in himself when the chips are ready.

Elon Musk’s health tech startup Neuralink shared updates on brain implant technology during a “show and tell” recruitment event on Wednesday night. Musk said at the event that he planned to get one of the implants himself. According to Musk, two of the company’s apps will aim to restore vision even to those who are congenitally blind, while a third app will focus on the motor cortex, restoring “whole-body functionality” for people who have had their spinal cords severed. “We are confident that restoring full-body functionality does not have any physical limitations,” Musk said. Musk also claimed that Neuralink could begin testing the motor cortex technology in humans as soon as six months.

Neuralink was founded in 2016 by Musk and a group of other scientists and engineers. Musk has invested tens of millions of personal fortunes into the company. Earlier this year, he used to criticize Metaverse and said that Neuralink is a better solution.

With no evidence, he stated that Neuralink’s chips could provide “superhuman cognition”, allowing paralyzed people to control their smartphones or robotic limbs with their minds and “solve” autism and schizophrenia. The company’s presentation on Wednesday echoed those lofty ambitions when Musk said, “While it may sound miraculous, we are confident it is possible to restore full-body functionality to someone with a spinal cord injury.” Musk revealed images of a monkey with a computer chip in its skull playing “telepathic video games,” which Neuralink first launched a year ago.

Neuralink has come under fire for allegedly treating monkeys. On Wednesday the Physician’s Responsible Medicine Committee urged Musk to provide details about experiments on monkeys that resulted in internal bleeding, paralysis, chronic infections, seizures, reduced psychological health and death.

According to Anna Wexler, assistant professor of medical ethics and health policy at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Neuralink’s flashy presentations are unusual for companies in the medical device sector. Wexler urged people to approach Neuralink’s bold claims with a “skeptical hat.” Brain-computer interface (BCI) expert Chen said that Neuralink implants will subject people to a very intrusive procedure.

In fact, Neuralink isn’t the only company trying to innovate using BCIs. In fact, many achieved significant advancements in recent years.

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