Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang says he is waiting for Elon Musk's brain chips before having kids
founder
Alexandr Wang
has stated that he plans to delay having children until
brain-computer interfaces
like
Neuralink
become available. The 28-year-old tech founder and soon-to-be head of Meta's superintelligence initiatives, shared this perspective on a recent Shawn Ryan Show episode.
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His decision highlights his interest in integrating superintelligence into the next generation. Neuralink, a project led by
, is developing coin-sized microchips designed for brain implantation. These chips are intended to both record and stimulate brain activity. Currently in clinical trials, Neuralink has been implanted in three patients. One patient, Brad Smith, who has ALS, reported being able to edit a video using his Neuralink brain chip.
Why Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang is waiting for Neuralink brain chips to have kids
At one of the recent episodes of Shawn Ryan Show, Wang said:
'I want to wait to have kids until we figure out how Neuralink or other ways (brain computer interfaces) for brains to interlink with a computer until they start working. There are a few reasons for this. In first seven years of life, your brain is more neuroplastic than at any other point by an order of magnitude.
For example, if a newborn that has cataracts in their eyes, so they can't see through the cataracts and then they live the first seven years of their life with those cataracts.
Then when you have them removed they're like eight or nine.
Even with those removed, they're not going to learn how to see because it's so important in those first seven years of your development that you're able to see, that your brain can learn how to read the signals coming off of your eyes.
And if you don't have that until you're eight or nine, then you won't learn how to see, because it's so important that your
neuroplasticity
is so high in that early stage of life.
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I think, when we get Neuralink and these other technologies, kids who are born with them are going to learn how to use them in like crazy ways. It'll be like a part of their brain in a way that it'll never be true for an adult who gets a Neuralink or whatever hooked into their brain.'
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