AI Research & Frontier Labs · August 2026
Sarah Guo had just asked how the clinicians he works with react to his premise. Hodak co-founded Neuralink and now runs Science Corp, where that assumption is doing real work rather than rhetorical work — the implants only make sense if it holds. He treats the backlash as weather, not as an argument to be won.
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Yeah, I mean, in the clinical trial, I mean, the main thing was just the existence proof of like that success was impossible outcome, right? Like that you had patients filling in Sudoku puzzles or crossword puzzles. There were patients that were reading books. And so I saw some of these patients, some of these videos, met with one of the patients, talked to the surgeons. I mean, this is one of those things that seems too good to be true. How did
clinicians react to all of this? Like, do, would, would the people that you work with say at the beginning, like, yes, Max is right. Like, the brain is a computer. This should definitely work. It should work at a higher likelihood and better rate of progression than our random walk and biological understanding.
Well, if you want to make people angry, you should tell the internet that the brain is a computer.
Okay.
Start by
doing that. All right.
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