Microchip Is Ready To Be Implanted In The Brain, Will There Be Human Cyborgs?

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JAKARTA - Elon Musk revealed that his company is ready to conduct a trial of installing a microchip into the human brain this year. Neuralink is the company that will conduct this trial.

Musk also said that the trial plan will be carried out as soon as the FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) approves of Neuralink's achievements. The trial will be carried out at the end of 2021.

“Neuralink works very hard to carry out implants safely and communicate with the FDA. If all goes well, we might be able to do human trials later this year", Musk said through his Twitter upload as quoted by Business Insider, Wednesday, February 3.

Previously, Musk responded to Twitter users who were ready to conduct clinical trials at Neuralink. The test schedule for replacing the chip in the human brain has been pushed back. Originally, it was planned for 2020.

The chip installation in the brain is claimed to accelerate the flow of information from the human brain to the machine. This action is also claimed to be useful for medical purposes, such as curing neurological diseases, both Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

Previously, Elon Musk had conducted trials of installing chips into the brains of pigs. Recently, Neuralink has also implanted microchips into monkey heads. The monkey is expected to be able to play video games like humans in general.

Cited from BBC International, in the future humans will be able to control smartphone or computer devices through their minds. Musk also revealed that this chip can cure dementia and Parkinson's. Musk calls "superhuman cognition" to counter the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence that has the potential to threaten humans.