Brain chip research being deregulated will break more than a few eggs. No comment so far from President Musk’s assistant.
Some of the latest employees on the chopping block at tech billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency task force are Food and Drug Administration staff who oversee regulation of one of Musk's companies, Reuters reported Monday evening.
Layoffs at the FDA, according to Rachael Levy and Marisa Taylor, include "about 20 people in the FDA’s office of neurological and physical medicine devices, several of whom worked on Neuralink, according to the two sources, who asked not to be identified because of fear of professional repercussions. That division includes reviewers overseeing clinical-trial applications by Neuralink and other companies making so-called brain-computer interface devices, the sources said."
The idea behind Neuralink is for the implants to directly interface with people's brains and allow people to control things in their environment with thought, an idea that theoretically has numerous applications for people with paralysis and other physical disabilities.
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"The decline of America’s creditworthiness has been a stop-start process every time the debt limit approaches. But now, DOGE will get it done for good because the teenagers tracking the US government’s credit card balance have killed countless Neuralink monkeys."
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— McSweeney's (@mcsweeneys.net) February 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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🚨OH HELL NO!
‘DOGE appears to have busted their way into the Social Security Administration, forcing the resignation of the acting commissioner, Michelle King, when she resisted their demands to give DOGE access to Agency’s most sensitive government records’.
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