Elon Musk’s Neuralink, a medical device company, is under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations amid internal staff complaints that its animal testing is being rushed, causing needless suffering and deaths, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and sources familiar with the investigation and company operations. Neuralink Corp is developing a brain implant it hopes will help paralyzed people walk again and cure other neurological ailments. The investigation has come at a time of growing employee dissent about Neuralink’s animal testing, including complaints that pressure from CEO Musk to accelerate development has resulted in botched experiments, according to a Reuters review of dozens of Neuralink documents and interviews with more than 20 current and former employees.
Source: Musk’s Neuralink faces federal probe, employee backlash over animal test
i copied these lines from the article. indeed, the animal testing shouldbe done to best practices. as long has this is for reasonably likely resreach for humans problems like the he touts. if just foer ther sort of bci nonsense i rant about, that can wait. since only an extensipon of the
“Another former employee recalled Musk saying he disliked using animals for research but wanted to make sure they were “the happiest animals” while alive.”
“On several occasions over the years, Musk has told employees to imagine they had a bomb strapped to their heads in an effort to get them to move faster, according to three sources who repeatedly heard the comment. “
“But current and former Neuralink employees say the number of animal deaths is higher than it needs to be for reasons related to Musk’s demands to speed research. “
