Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink’s implants. A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly specifics of their deaths as US authorities have been asked to investigate Musk’s claims.

Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink’s implants. A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly specifics of their deaths as US authorities have been asked to investigate Musk’s claims.

  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
    28·
    1 year ago

    Musk’s remarks aside (because anything he says is basically filtered through is “”“grand visions”“”), the cases in the article seem like somewhat standard animal testing cases.

    The only borderline case would be Animal 15, imo. Having her live with an implant for “months” while it seems uncomfortable seems cruel, but even there I could see why they did it.

    In the grand scheme of things, it’s by far not the worst things we’re doing with animal testing. Be it rodents or primates.

    It some point, tech like this needs to be tested against living organisms (if we want to advance in this area of tech)

    • andresil@lemm.ee
      11·
      1 year ago

      This isn’t quite normal, usually at these facilities in the case of 15, 22, and 20 especially show that the workers are not carrying out proper regular assessment and that the criteria for euthanasia for excessive suffering looks to be far to high. I only know the case of how this kind if testing is handled with mice (from my partner, and in germany) and all three of these cases would have been euthanized much earlier, not left to live on for a year or even days. As usual with Musk, he tries to cut corners and it only ends up hurting people and in this case animals unecessarily.