Complaint says Neuralink chip tests killed monkeys

the Neuralinka company he founded Elon Musk And the focus on the brain transplant sector should be officially denounced in the United States for animal abuse. The accusations will be linked to the monkeys used to test the company’s technology: most of the monkeys would have died after the experiments.

According to the site interested in tradeThe USDA is expected to receive a formal complaint this week from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a group focused on animal rights and the use of the species in clinical trials.

Neuralink recently announced that it intends to begin testing brain chips in humans. Still in 2022.

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The organization claims to have received documents proving the “extreme suffering” suffered by animals used in Neuralink’s laboratories between 2017 and 2020, which would prove “inappropriate animal treatment and highly invasive experiments”. In April of last yearThe company shared a video of a monkey playing pong using only mind controls, thanks to an implanted chip.

In more than 700 pages of studies, there are reports that only seven of the 23 monkeys survived tests conducted by Neuralink and the University of California, Davis.

The rest were reportedly killed or died under a variety of conditions – including untreated infections after surgical procedures, extreme fatigue, and trauma and injuries that may have been caused by the animals themselves, with no confirmed link to the implants.

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“Almost all of the monkeys that had implants in their heads suffered very devastating effects on their health. They were, frankly, maiming and killing the animals,” says group director and activist Jeremy Beckham.

As the complaint has not yet been formalized, Neuralink has yet to comment on the case. Davis University claims to have followed all protocols during the research.