Musk Reframes Neuralink as Insurance Against Superintelligence

Elon Musk positions brain-computer interfaces not as a revenue play but as a hedge against a world where machines are far smarter than humans.

Amid the week's concrete safety incidents, a more speculative framing resurfaced. @EvaFox highlighted Elon Musk's argument that Neuralink isn't primarily a way to make money, but a response to the question: "What do we do if there is a superintelligence that is much smarter than human beings?" The implied answer is that brain-computer interfaces could keep humans relevant — or at least in the loop — by raising human cognitive bandwidth rather than trying to constrain the machines.

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