Elon Musk predicts brain implant company Neuralink will soon yield ‘Jesus-level miracles of science’
BY : Ian M. Giatti, Christian Post Reporter
Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur who once wore satanic armor as a Halloween costume, says his company Neuralink is on the cusp of introducing “Jesus-level sort of technologies.”
During a virtual appearance on May 18 at Israel’s 9th International Samson Smart Mobility Summit, Musk, 54, described Neuralink’s ambitious brain-computer interface projects and highlighted the company’s goals to restore sight and mobility to patients with severe disabilities.
“Later this year, we expect to do our first implant for what we call ‘blindsight,’ where even if somebody has lost both eyes or lost the optic nerve or perhaps has never been able to see, even if they were blind at birth, it will give them initially limited vision, but I think, over time, very precise vision, perhaps superhuman vision,” he said.
“Restoring control of tetraplegics and restoring sight, I think, are pretty big deals. You might call them Jesus-level technologies, miracles of science,” Musk added, drawing laughter from the audience.
Throughout the Gospels, Jesus repeatedly performed several miracles, including restoring sight to the blind, as recorded most famously at the Pool of Siloam in John 9 with the man who was born blind and in Luke 18 when He healed a blind man in Jericho.
The Neuralink discussion was part of a wide-ranging interview covering Tesla’s progress in autonomous driving, humanoid robots, SpaceX’s Starship and humanity’s long-term future.
On Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) technology, which relies solely on cameras and AI, Musk expressed strong confidence. “I expect this approach to ultimately be at least an order of magnitude safer than humans driving,” he said. He noted that unsupervised FSD vehicles are already operating without safety monitors in three Texas cities and predicted widespread deployment in the U.S. by year’s end.
Looking further ahead, Musk predicted that “ten years from now, probably 90% of all distance driving will be driven by the AI in a self-driving car.” He added, “Overwhelmingly, it’ll be quite a niche thing in ten years to actually be driving your own car. The car will drive you.”
Musk championed Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot and envisioned a future dominated by intelligent machines.
“My prediction is that there will be far more intelligent robots in the world than there will be people,” he said, prefacing his prediction by saying “we should always be concerned about such a thing because Terminator is one of the possible outcomes.”
Musk says he remains optimistic about AI.
“I think it will usher in an age of not universal basic income but universal high income,” he said.
While undeniable lofty goals can hardly be described as nefarious, some have speculated about whether Musk has an ultimate agenda, one that perhaps stems from what at least one Christian thinker has described as a worldview that veers toward “atheistic transhumanism.”
As Neuralink’s progress races ahead of Musk’s predictions from four years ago, some Christian neurologists have spoken out about ethical questions raised by implanting devices in the human brain.
In response, Musk has said the reason he created the company in the first place was as a “risk mitigation for digital super-intelligence,” adding, “If we are able to effectively achieve symbiosis with digital intelligence, then … the collective human will is better able to steer things in the direction that we’d like, or even with benign AI, at least go along for the ride,” he told The Babylon Bee in a 2022 interview.
“We’re already at this point, partially a cyborg … in that our phones and computers and applications are a digital extension of ourselves at this point,” Musk added.
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