{"id":20793,"date":"2025-11-10T05:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T04:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/10\/investors-dumb-transhumanist-ideas-setting-back-neurotech-progress-say-experts\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T05:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T04:37:16","slug":"investors-dumb-transhumanist-ideas-setting-back-neurotech-progress-say-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/10\/investors-dumb-transhumanist-ideas-setting-back-neurotech-progress-say-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Investors\u2019 \u2018dumb transhumanist ideas\u2019 setting back neurotech progress, say experts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fascination of investors such as Elon Musk with uploading their brains to computers is hindering progress in curing disease, say scientists<\/p>\n

It has been an excellent year for neurotech, if you ignore the people funding it. In August, a tiny brain implant successfully decoded<\/a> the inner speech of paralysis patients. In October, an eye restored sight<\/a> to patients who had lost their vision.<\/p>\n

It would just be better, say experts, if the most famous investors in the space \u2013 tech magnates such as Elon Musk and OpenAI\u2019s Sam Altman \u2013 were less interested in uploading their brains to computers or merging with AI.<\/p>\n

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\nFascination of investors such as Elon Musk with uploading their brains to computers is hindering progress in curing disease, say scientists
\nIt 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.
\nIt would just be better, say experts, if the most famous investors in the space \u2013 tech magnates such as Elon Musk and OpenAI\u2019s Sam Altman \u2013 were less interested in uploading their brains to computers or merging with AI. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fascination of investors such as Elon Musk with uploading their brains to computers is hindering progress in curing disease, say scientists It 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 …<\/p>\n

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