{"id":89853,"date":"2019-04-23T11:24:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T18:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/elon-musk-brain-computer-interface-update-coming-soon"},"modified":"2019-04-23T11:24:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T18:24:10","slug":"elon-musk-brain-computer-interface-update-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/elon-musk-brain-computer-interface-update-coming-soon","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk: Brain-Computer Interface Update \u201cComing Soon\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-brain-computer-interface-update-coming-soon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>AI Overlords<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Musk has repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/grimes-musk-rococo-basilisk\">warned of evil AI overlords<\/a> in the past, saying that AI could become \u201can immortal dictator from which we could never escape\u201d in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EdguhIzftH4\">2018 documentary<\/a> called \u201cDo You Trust This Computer?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most of what Neuralink is working on, including any plans for a brain computer interface, are still tightly under wraps. In one tantalizing clue, <em>Bloomberg <\/em>recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-04-11\/team-linked-to-elon-musk-neuralink-outline-brain-monitor-system\">reported on<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/sewing-machine-implant-brain-electrodes\">still unpublished academic paper<\/a> by five authors who have been employed by or associated with Neuralink \u2014 though it\u2019s unclear whether Musk\u2019s tweet referred to their work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/elon-musk-brain-computer-interface-coming-soon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI Overlords Musk has repeatedly warned of evil AI overlords in the past, saying that AI could become \u201can immortal dictator from which we could never escape\u201d in a 2018 documentary called \u201cDo You Trust This Computer?\u201d Most of what Neuralink is working on, including any plans for a brain computer interface, are still tightly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,2019,269,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-elon-musk","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89853","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}