Rage against the machine: Americans warn Elon Musk to 'stop creating cyborgs' after he revealed the first human has had Neuralink's brain chip

Elon Musk has left even his most ardent fans terrified after he revealed his tech start-up Neuralink has become the first to successfully implant a microchip into a human brain. The world's richest man said the operation took place on Sunday and'initial results show promising neuron spike detection'. The device - called'Telepathy' will'enable control of your phone or computer, and through them almost any device, just by thinking', he said. But many of his 170 million followers on X, formerly Twitter, accused him of'mind control', creating'cyborgs', and even'playing God'. 'The negative potential of this makes me very uneasy,' one person wrote in a reply to his announcement.