Some highly invasive implants and their associated hardware are inserted in the brain after drilling holes in the animals’ skulls. Now a doctors group is accusing Neuralink of animal abuse of varying nature during brain implant experiments.
A doctors' group has lodged a claim with the United States Department of Agriculture, accusing that Elon Musk's brain-computer interface firm Neuralink as well as its study partners at the University of California Davis breached the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) throughout experimentations with 23 monkeys between 2018 and 2020.
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit with over 17,000 healthcare professional members, submitted the dispute on Thursday, requesting that the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service look into the experimental tests, which took place at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center from early 2018 to late 2020.
PCRM claimed in a copy of the laws...
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