'He can’t appreciate that this is not a car. This is a person’s brain. This is not a toy.'
Neuralink isn't technically obliged to publicize if or why its application was rejected by regulators.
And besides, it's far from game over for the startup as it's not an uncommon occurrence. According to, only roughly two-thirds of all FDA applications for human trials get approved after the first application. Musk, however, has characteristically made some extremely bold promises about the future of the technology that didn't acknowledge those behind-the-scenes difficulties.
The billionaire CEO is also known for butting heads with regulators, who he largely sees as an impediment. Like with his other ventures, including Tesla and SpaceX, Musk's approach has, broadly speaking, been "move fast and break things.""Everybody in the industry was saying: ‘Oh my God, they’re going to run straight into a brick wall,'" Kip Ludwig, former program director for neural engineering at the US National Institutes of Health , told.
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