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Would you let Elon Musk install a brain chip?

Elon Musk speaks at an event in Hawthorne, California, on April 30, 2015. [Reuters]

Elon Musk's Neuralink has been studying "How to Implant a Chip Inside the Human Brain" for years. Scientists revealed their work last year, detailing how they inserted a chip in a monkey's brain and displayed the data on a computer screen.

Don't think they're implanting chips in everyone's heads.

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