Elon Musk’s Neuralink re-entered public discourse Tuesday, when the world’s richest man announced that his neurotech startup is developing an implantable vision chip purportedly capable of curing blindness. While Musk says the release date for such a device is still years away, the announcement whipped up plenty of excitement among technology enthusiasts. 

But, as Neuralink starts the daunting work of turning its sci-fi dreams into reality, the risk of human suffering exacted in the name of such experiments has never been higher.

Since 2018, Neuralink has killed roughly 1,500 animals in the process of trying to connect brains to computer interfaces, according to company records reviewed by Reuters. In the wake of that work, the company began actively recruiting for its first human trials in late September, after receiving FDA approval.

Many of the animals Neuralink killed were larger mammals with brains closer in size and likeness to those of humans, such as monkeys and pigs. And the details of their deaths are documented in vivid detail, to put it mildly. 

Records from UC Davis’ California National Primate Research Center, first obtained by

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