Investors’ ‘dumb transhumanist ideas’ setting back neurotech progress, say experts

<p>Fascination of investors such as Elon Musk with uploading their brains to computers is hindering progress in curing disease, say scientists</p><p>It has been an excellent year for neurotech, if you ignore the people funding it. In August, a tiny brain implant successfully <a href="https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00681-6">decoded</a> the inner speech of paralysis patients. In October, an eye <a href="https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/10/eye-prosthesis.html">restored sight</a> to patients who had lost their vision.</p><p>It would just be better, say experts, if the most famous investors in the space – tech magnates such as Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman – were less interested in uploading their brains to computers or merging with AI.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/10/investors-transhumanist-ideas-neurotech-progress-elon-musk">Continue reading...</a>