Musk says the first human receives Neuralink brain implant According to Elon Musk, the first human received an implant from his computer-brain interface company Neuralink over the weekend. In a Monday post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Musk said that the patient received the implant the day prior and was "recovering well." He added that "initial results show promising neuron spike detection." Musk has been outspoken about his concerns regarding AI and the dangers associated with it, often calling for more regulation of the powerful technology. He has expressed fear that AI could lead to "civilizational destruction" if mismanaged. "Even if you say that AI doesn’t have agency, well, it’s very likely that people will use the AI as a tool in elections," he said in a previous interview with Fox News. "And then, you know, if AI's smart enough, are they using the tool or is the tool using them? So I think things are getting weird, and they’re getting weird fast." "What's happening is they're training the AI to lie. It's bad," he added. "AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production. In the sense that it has the potential, however small one may regard that probability, but it is non-trivial, it has the potential of civilization destruction." Kurzweil explained he had made this prediction at the turn of the 21st century. "I actually said that in 1999," Kurzweil said. "I said we would match any person by 2029, so 30 years. People thought that was totally crazy. In fact, Stanford had a conference that invited several hundred people from around the world to talk about my prediction, and people thought that this would happen, but not by 2029. They thought it would take 100 years." Rogan asked Kurzweil if this disparity in opinion was because people have a difficult time grasping the concept of exponential growth, which the futurist explained was "exactly right." "In fact, still, economists have a linear view," Kurzweil said. "If you say, well, it's going to grow exponentially, but yeah, maybe 2% a year. It actually doubles in 14 years."