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Nathan Higgins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Monash Bioethics Centre, Monash University

Experimental brain implants are on the rise. What happens after the trials are over?

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In 2024, Elon Musk’s Neuralink put its first brain implant into a human amid doubt from scientists and allegations of animal cruelty.

Two and a half years later, that first patient is one of more than 20 “neuralnauts” who use their implants to participate in the online world.

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