Elon Musk’s Neuralink under investigation by the U.S. Department of Transportation for allegedly handling contaminated hardware in an unsafe manner.
, SpaceX and Twitter, co-founded Neuralink in 2016 with a group of scientists and engineers. The company is developing a BCI that is designed to be inserted directly into the brain tissue, and while it is not testing its device in humans yet, Musk has said heThe public records obtained by PCRM, which were reviewed by CNBC, include emails exchanged between Neuralink and the University of California, Davis.
The staffer wrote that if Neuralink employees had not completed the necessary training, UC Davis personnel were"always happy" to package and ship materials. In another instance in April of 2019, a UC Davis staffer, whose name is redacted, wrote in an email that three explanted devices had arrived in an"open box with no secondary container." The staffer noted that the uncontained, monkey-contaminated hardware put members of the Primate Center at risk.
PCRM obtained these records from UC Davis through a public information request. Since Neuralink is a private company, it is not subject to public records laws. Representatives from UC Davis did not respond to requests for comment.
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