DATE: January 05, 2026 at 04:30AMSOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECH
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DATE: January 05, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: What does Neuralink want — to help people with paralysis, or prepare for a war with AI?
Neuralink recently lured a top official away from the Food and Drug Administration office that regulates the company, a poaching that has surprised, impressed, and infuriated its competitors in a fledgling industry developing brain-computer interfaces.
The move has also resurfaced long-standing questions surrounding the Elon Musk-led company. What does it care most about? Helping disabled people regain autonomy, building a device for consumers to play video games, or mitigating the singularity, a theoretical future in which artificial intelligence has surpassed human intelligence?
It’s not an easy question to answer. Neuralink top officials’ public rhetoric about machine-human symbiosis and healthy human implantation diverges sharply from the company’s clinical work helping people with ALS and quadriplegia control a computer with their mind. This conflicting messaging from a company perceived as the emerging field’s leader could hinder the ability of startups developing brain-computer interfaces to gain approval for them as medical devices and be paid for by health insurers, according to interviews with competitors, investors, experts, and former federal regulators.
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