Neuralink Animal Welfare

Neura Pod - Neuralink
5 min readFeb 14, 2022
  • Neuralink is committed to working with animals in the most humane and ethical way possible.
  • No loss-of-toe injuries occurred at any time to animals housed at UC Davis while part of Neuralink’s project.
  • Neuralink has never received a citation from the USDA inspections of our facilities and animal care program.

Lately there have been several articles claiming animal mistreatment and abuse at the Elon Musk- founded company, Neuralink and at the University of California at Davis.

These publications from Fortune, Business Insider, and the like are gaining lots of traction and starting to dominate headlines.

Misleading animal abuse & mistreatment articles.

With all this misleading sensationalism being spread about Neuralink, it’s worthwhile to keep the long-term goals of the team in mind:

  1. To solve important brain and spine problems with a seamlessly implanted device
  2. To develop a high bandwidth interface because when it comes to AI: if you can’t beat ’em, join ‘em.

Additionally, here are some employees discussing animal care at Neuralink:

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Neura Pod - Neuralink

Neura Pod is a series covering topics related to Neuralink, Inc. Topics such as brain-machine interface and artificial intelligence will be explored.