{"id":135061,"date":"2022-02-01T11:25:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T19:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/elon-musks-neuralink-is-an-absolute-disaster-neuralink-former-employees-say"},"modified":"2022-02-01T11:25:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T19:25:21","slug":"elon-musks-neuralink-is-an-absolute-disaster-neuralink-former-employees-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/elon-musks-neuralink-is-an-absolute-disaster-neuralink-former-employees-say","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink is an Absolute Disaster, Neuralink former employees say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musks-neuralink-is-an-absolute-disaster-neuralink-former-employees-say2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk has always said that Neuralink, the company he created in 2016 to build brain-computer interfaces, would do amazing things: Eventually, he says, it aims to allow humans to interact seamlessly with advanced artificial intelligence through thought alone. Along the way, it would help to cure people with spinal cord injuries and brain disorders ranging from Parkinson\u2019s to schizophrenia.<\/p>\n<p>Now the company is approaching a key test: a human clinical trial of its brain-computer interface (BCI). In December, Musk told a conference audience that \u201cwe hope to have this in our first humans\u201d in 2022. In January, the company posted a job listing for a clinical trial director, an indication that it may be on track to meet Musk\u2019s suggested timeline.<\/p>\n<p>Musk has put the startup under unrelenting pressure to meet unrealistic timelines, these former employees say. \u201cThere was this top-down dissatisfaction with the pace of progress even though we were moving at unprecedented speeds,\u201d says one former member of Neuralink\u2019s technical staff, who worked at the company in 2019. \u201cStill Elon was not satisfied.\u201d Multiple staffers say company policy, dictated by Musk, forbade employees from faulting outside suppliers or vendors for a delay; the person who managed that relationship had to take responsibility for missed deadlines, even those outside their control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has always said that Neuralink, the company he created in 2016 to build brain-computer interfaces, would do amazing things: Eventually, he says, it aims to allow humans to interact seamlessly with advanced artificial intelligence through thought alone. Along the way, it would help to cure people with spinal cord injuries and brain disorders [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2019,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-elon-musk","category-policy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}