TREE NEWS update: Elon Musk said he is bullish on “biological enhancement” over the next decade, with Neuralink, the company he co-founded, working to break through the bottleneck in human information-transfer bandwidth. Musk said human bandwidth peaks at roughly 100 bits per second, while computers communicate at trillions of bits per second, making any technology that speeds up human communication improve human-machine alignment.
Musk Touts ‘Biological Enhancement’ as Neuralink Pursues Human Bandwidth Breakthrough
Musk's framing recasts brain-computer interfaces from a medical device story into a general-purpose communications thesis: the constraint is human output speed, not machine capability. That matters because it widens the perceived addressable market beyond patients toward anyone whose work involves interfacing with machines, which is a different regulatory and ethical conversation than the one Neuralink's clinical work has prompted. Whether bandwidth claims translate into demonstrated, safe human performance remains the open question, and it is the milestone worth tracking.
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