Who will allow Elon Musk to put a chip in their head?

The Food and Drug Administration has apparently given clearance for Elon Musk’s Neuralink to test its brain chips in humans. 

In a jubilant tweet from Neuralink said the FDA’s decision "represents an important first step that will one day allow our technology to help many people.” Musk previously claimed that his chips could help people with  neurological problems like Parkinson’s disease.

The tweet also claims that and that recruiting hasn’t started and thank god for that because I have oh so many questions about this like:

Who is volunteering to do this? I could see, maybe  if you’re comatose, but comatose people don’t make many decisions unless it’s covered in a living will of some sort. So I'll sharpen the point: who is volunteering to do this, that is for lack of a better term: normal? And how much are they being paid? I’d bet it’s a pretty penny. 

Perhaps I’m strange but I wait to update the software on my phone because bugs happen. I’d hate to have a software bug in my brain because its my brain of course.

And  how would you react if your loved one  told you “I’m volunteering to have an experimental brain chip inserted in me?” 

And after hearing that, who says “Awesome Bob?” or ”Oh great Kim!”  Instead of, “Are you kidding me?”

 If the folks at Neuralink are listening I’m first in line to interview these characters because they would instantly be the most interesting people in the world.

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