The man with a mind-reading chip in his brain, thanks to Elon Musk

Noland Arbaugh tells the BBC how being the first Neuralink patient has changed his life.

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In January 2024 - eight years after he was paralysed - the 30-year-old became the first person to get such a device from the US neurotechnology firm, Neuralink.

It was not the first such chip - a handful of other companies have also developed and implanted them - but Noland's inevitably attracts more attention because of Neuralink's founder: Elon Musk.

But Noland says the important thing is neither him nor Musk - but the science.

He told the BBC he knew the risks of what he was doing - but "good or bad, whatever may be, I would be helping".

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewk49j7j1po

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