This article is taken from the monthly Sciences et Avenir n°935, dated January 2025.
AI in your head. This is the crazy dream of billionaire Elon Musk, who is counting on his intelligent implant Neuralink to survive the threat of these same AIs… Rest assured, we are not there at all. Omnipotent artificial intelligences like Skynet in Terminator have not yet seen the light of day. And we do not understand the human brain well enough to claim to merge our minds with a computer. However, there are more and more brain implants that integrate artificial intelligence, but for a very different purpose: to repair the human body.