Elon Musk’s startup firm Neuralink livestreamed on March 20 its first affected person implanted with a brain-chip utilizing his thoughts to play chess on a pc. (Credit score: Reuters)
Noland Arbaugh, the primary individual ever implanted with a Neuralink brain-computer interface, has introduced that he’ll vote for former President Donald Trump within the 2024 presidential election.
Arbaugh famous in a publish on X that he had been wrestling with whether or not to share his political beliefs, however finally determined to take action.
“Registered to vote right now simply within the nick of time. I have been debating whether or not or to not publish about my politics on right here as a result of I did not need to alienate anybody, however I feel this election is means too necessary to not become involved. That is why I will be voting for @realDonaldTrump,” Arbaugh tweeted on Monday.
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Noland Arbaugh (proper) discusses his Neuralink brain-chip implant with one among Elon Musk’s engineers. (Reuters)
Elon Musk, the rich enterprise tycoon behind Neuralink, endorsed Trump and has been a vocal supporter. He attended Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania over the weekend.
“President Trump should win to protect the Structure. He should win to protect democracy in America,” Musk declared whereas talking on the Trump rally on Saturday.
He urged listeners to press different individuals to each register to vote and to really forged their poll.
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Elon Musk speaks in help of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Oct. 5, 2024 (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Photographs)
Musk urged in a publish on X final week that if Trump doesn’t clinch victory within the 2024 presidential contest, “America is in serious trouble.”
Arbaugh is a quadriplegic who, because of the Neuralink tech he had implanted earlier this yr, is now capable of work together along with his pc utilizing solely his ideas.
Whereas Arbaugh was the primary human implanted with the gadget, Neuralink later positioned the know-how right into a second affected person.
Neuralink signifies that sooner or later it goals to “restore capabilities similar to imaginative and prescient, motor perform, and speech, and ultimately develop how we expertise the world.”
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Arbaugh demonstrates how he can play chess on his laptop computer with Neuralink’s mind implant. (Reuters / Reuters Pictures)
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Arbaugh has beforehand spoken overtly about his religion.
“God is nice. All the pieces from Him is nice. He’s the explanation I’m right here and my cause for residing. All the pieces I do, I do for Him. For His is the ability and the glory and the dominion endlessly. Amen and God bless,” he tweeted final month.
