Elon Musk’s Neuralink Has Revealed the World’s First Human Brain Chip Implant Recipient

Zack Love
4 min readMar 27, 2024

Neuralink has revealed the world’s first brain chip implant recipient who shares that the surgery has “changed his life” for the better.

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Does Elon Musk have a winner on his hands with Neuralink?

Answer: If you can overlook all the monkeys dying in the early tests well before their normal life span. I wrote about this in a previous article.

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The First Brain Implant Recipient has been Revealed

The world’s “first human user of the Neuralink brain chip” came forward in a video with a Neuralink engineer posted to X.com (formerly Twitter) to give the world an update on how everything is going.

Just by watching the video, he seems to be all smiles, and that’s great news. The social media post with embedded video are found at the bottom of this article.

An Introduction: Noland Arbaugh

Meet Noland. A 29-year-old quadriplegic who received the Neuralink brain chip implant, that he is immensely grateful for.

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