Elon Musk wants to link computers to our brains to prevent an existential threat to humanity

Brain computer interfaces might prevent superintelligent AI from ending the world. Elon Musk is a busy guy. Given Musk's ambitiousness, it's not totally surprising that he is also launching a company that will look into ways to link human brains to computers. Musk reportedly plans to spend 3-5% of his work time on Neuralink, which will develop technology to integrate brains and computers as a way to fix medical problems and eventually supercharge human cognition. Existing brain-computer interfaces, which are relatively simple compared to Musks's goals, can connect to a few hundred brain cells at a time.