MIKE ALLEN:
You're a neuroscience company,
and you're working to build
basically an interface
to the brain.
Yeah.
Electrode to neuron interface
at a micro level.
JIM: Okay, what is that?
Like, I'm gonna have like
a plug in my head
-that's gonna fit
into a hard drive?
-ELON: Mm-hmm.
-Like, how does that work?
-Yeah, yeah.
A chip
and a bunch of tiny wires.
This would
be implanted surgically?
And it would do what?
Could you input?
Could you download Jim?
-Mm-hmm. Yes.
-JIM: But what--
(ELON AND MIKE LAUGH)
The long term aspiration
for Neuralink was--
would be to achieve a symbiosis
with artificial intelligence,
um, and to achieve
a sort of democratization
of intelligence,
uh, such that it is not
monopolistically held
in a purely digital form
by governments
and large corporations.
JIM: Basically an effort for man
-to merge with machine
in a healthy way.
-Yes, yes.
To beat machines
you basically have to merge
with machines.
ELON: Most likely, yes.
Essentially,
how do we ensure that the future
constitutes the--
the sum of the will of humanity?
Um, and so if we have
billions of people
with a high bandwidth link to
the AI extension of themselves,
it would actually
make everyone hypersmart.
