Investors' 'dumb transhumanist ideas' setting back neurotech progress, say experts

'Neuralink is doing legitimate technology development for neuroscience, and then Elon Musk comes along and starts talking about telepathy and stuff.' 'Neuralink is doing legitimate technology development for neuroscience, and then Elon Musk comes along and starts talking about telepathy and stuff.' Investors' 'dumb transhumanist ideas' setting back neurotech progress, say experts I t has been an excellent year for neurotech, if you ignore the people funding it. In August, a tiny brain implant successfully decoded the inner speech of paralysis patients. In October, an eye restored sight to patients who had lost their vision. It would just be better, say experts, if the most famous investors in the space - tech magnates such as Elon Musk and OpenAI's Sam Altman - were less interested in uploading their brains to computers or merging with AI. "It's distorting the debate a lot," said Marcello Ienca, a professor of neuroethics at the Technical University of Munich.