Last week, The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a national nonprofit comprised of over 17,000 members, filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) against the University of California, Davis and Neuralink. The complaint alleged that Neuralink and its partners had violated the “federal Animal Welfare Act related to invasive and deadly brain experiments conducted on 23 monkeys.”
The university had received over $1.4 million from Neuralink, a company that Elon Musk launched in 2016 to develop a brain-machine interface. Out of the 23 test subject monkeys, only 8 had survived the clinical trials.
