Neuralink is reportedly under federal investigation — and the details are serious.
that many mistakes endangering animal wellbeing are avoidable. For example, employees told the outlet, the company allegedly botched surgery on two pigs when it implanted their chips on the wrong vertebra, leading the company veterinarian to recommend killing one of the animals due to its "poor psychological well-being."that mistakes that led to the animals' deaths were sometimes exacerbated by Musk pushing the company to work faster than was safe.
Another detail reported in the story smacked of an ugly retroactive approach to scientific literature: after Musk described the company's approach to surgery as "confirmatory, not exploratory," company researchers were allegedly instructed to scrub the word "exploratory" from study titles retroactively, and to avoid using it in the future.
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