The Many Ways Elon Musk’s Neuralink Could Go Wrong

The brain-machine interface will require innovative ways of thinking about risk. We mapped it out.

Andrew Maynard
Nov 1 · 6 min read
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Several weeks ago, I was asked to write a commentary for the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) on the ethics of Elon Musk and Neuralink’s much-touted brain-machine interface. JMIR had accepted Musk’s paper…

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Director of the Arizona State University Risk Innovation Lab and author of “Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies”

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