Neuralink: 'We could enable people to ... walk again'

From:: Elon Musk
Date:: February 8, 2022 (6:37 a.m. Pacific Time, per Reuters)
To:: Neuralink staff

Excerpt. Only this much of the email has been made public.

We could enable people to use their hands and walk again in daily life!

About this email

Musk forwarded Neuralink staff a news article about Swiss researchers whose electrical implant helped a paralyzed man walk again, adding that Neuralink could do the same.

Notes

Reuters says he 'wrote to staff' while sending a news article; reported from internal documents/messages reviewed by Reuters in its Dec 2022 investigation of Neuralink animal testing. Reuters does not use the word 'email' in the passage as syndicated, so the medium is not fully certain.

Where it came from

Leaked to press; attribution single-source.

Reuters (Dec 5, 2022), as carried by The Korea Times
Forklog summary of the Reuters report

Neuralink, company-wide memo. Tags: neuralink, urgency, pace, competition

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