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		</div><p>Elon Musk is hoping patients with severe neurological conditions will be able to test wireless technology connecting the human brain to computers as soon as 2020.</p>
<p>The SpaceX founder’s startup Neuralink has sought approval from the US Food and Drug Administration and has already tested its technology on a monkey, which was able to control a computer with its brain, Mr Musk said.</p>
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<p>Scientists behind the project have developed a tiny implant with more than 3,000 electrodes, attached to flexible threads measuring about the tenth of the size of a hair, capable of monitoring around 1,000 neurons.</p>
<p>It would link up to an app, allowing users to control a mobile device, or a mouse and keyboard on a computer.</p>
<p>Although the technology is initially aimed at helping those with brain disorders, the 48-year-old said a brain-machine interface is needed in the future to mitigate the “existential threat of AI”.</p>
<p>This, I think, has a very good purpose, which is to cure important diseases, and ultimately to help secure humanity&#8217;s future as a civilisation, relative to AI</p>
<blockquote><p>“This is something that I think is going to be really important at a civilisation level,” he explained at an event in San Francisco.</p></blockquote>
<p>“This, I think, has a very good purpose, which is to cure important diseases, and ultimately to help secure humanity’s future as a civilisation, relative to AI.”</p>
<p>Neuralink is “aspirationally” aiming to implant the device in a human patient by the end of next year.</p>
<p>However, the entrepreneur warned that there was still much work to do, saying that the main purpose of the event was to recruit more staff.</p>
<p>“There is an incredible amount we can do to solve brain disorders, damage, and all this will occur quite slowly, so I do want to emphasise that it’s not going to be like, suddenly Neuralink will have this incredible neural lace and start taking over people’s brains,” he said.</p>
<p>“The overarching objective is to make the future better, aspirationally, and to hopefully not pave the road to hell with good intentions.”</p>
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