[Elon] Musk stated publicly that given the current rate of A.I. advancement, humans could ultimately expect to be left behind—cognitively, intellectually—“by a lot.” His solution to this unappealing fate is a novel brain-computer interface similar to [an] implantable “neural lace.”
Creating a neural lace is the thing that really matters for humanity to achieve symbiosis with machines — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 4, 2016