Brain-machine interface developer co-founded by Elon Musk neural linkIt has been on the agenda with big news lately. Chip implantation in the human brain and the organization, which aims to help those who have lost a skill in particular, shared the results of their experiments on animals.

But Neuralink conducted all of its experiments on animals before starting human trials. While some animals are known to have died during the company’s experiments, the exact number has never been disclosed. Today I already told this to Neuralink. launched an investigation popped up.

An investigation has been launched against Neuralink:

It is learned that the Office of the Inspector General of the US Department of Agriculture has launched an investigation against Neuralink in recent months at the request of the federal prosecutor. According to information from Reuters, the investigation is ongoing Comply with the Animal Welfare Act will focus on.

But the real news came out with the work of Reuters: more than 1500 animals may have been killed!

Reuters reached out and conducted a survey of more than 20 unnamed new and existing Neuralink employees. Company messages, audio recordings, emails, presentations and reportswas presented to Reuters by employees.

When looking at the documents, one came across a terrible picture: the total amount of Neuralink since 2018. He killed 1500 animals during the experiments. popped up. It was shared that 280 of these animals were sheep, pigs and monkeys. Other animals are believed to be the bats and mice used in the experiments.

Actually, killing animals in experiments is considered normal by law, but the scale of this work is different:

The fact that Neuralink has killed so many animals is actually It doesn’t mean you’re breaking any law. But former and current employees say the death toll is high because of Musk’s desire to speed up the investigation.

According to one employee, the acceleration of work pushed many planned things forward in the calendar and made last-minute changes before operations. That is, if it had continued at normal speed, the number of animal deaths could have been much less.

Neuralink has not yet made a statement on this. Earlier this year, the company made the following statement: