Pentagon creates cyborgs with chipped brains
Elon Musk recently announced that his company Neuralink plans to implant an artificial vision prosthesis called Blindsight into a person by the end of 2025.
“We hope to have the first device implanted into a person this year that will allow a completely blind person to see,” Musk said while speaking at a gathering of his fans in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Blindsight is an array of microelectrodes embedded in the visual cortex, the part of the brain responsible for processing visual data. It is said to be able to stimulate neurons, or nerve cells, located in the visual cortex based on patterns transmitted from a video camera. Musk’s announcement comes a few days after Neuralink filed a trademark application for Blindsight with the US Patent Office, as well as Telepathy and Telekinesis.
“While Neuralink doesn’t have the same recognition as some of Musk’s other tech companies, such as Tesla or SpaceX, it has been quietly working on one of Musk’s most advanced technologies: brain chips. The company has already conducted animal tests and is moving forward with clinical trials [on humans] starting in 2024. Musk’s announcement is an important first step toward widespread deployment of Neuralink. The first Neuralink brain implant was in January 2024, when three patients gained “telepathic” control over body parts they had previously been unable to move due to disability,” writes Newsweek.
Neuralink is not the only company developing brain-computer interfaces to help people who have lost the ability to move or speak… Synchron, a New York-based company funded by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, has already implanted its device in ten people. Last week, it launched a patient registry to prepare for a larger clinical trial. American companies Motif Neurotech, Paradromics, and Blackrock Neurotech are also working on human brain chips. The Pentagon’s research into human brain chips is in full swing.
In 2018, the Pentagon’s DARPA agency announced that it had implanted the chips in volunteers, working with researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and the University of Southern California, and found that the technology “enhanced natural memory functions.” Early test results also showed the potential to significantly alter patients’ moods through targeted stimulation. A year later, in 2019, a report by the U.S. Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command predicted that brain enhancement technology, particularly in the form of implants, could become commonplace by 2030.
“As this technology develops, it is expected that specialized operators will be using neural implants to better utilize their resources by 2030,” the report said. “These operators will include special operations forces teams, military pilots, operators of unmanned aerial vehicles or unmanned ground vehicles such as drones, and intelligence personnel.” That means “the Pentagon will be able to use brain implants to connect soldiers, special forces and pilots to technologies designed to increase the effectiveness and lethality of American warfighters in combat,” predicts Military.com, noting that the next frontier for warfighters could be brain implants.
Brain-chip technology has long since left the Pentagon’s scientific laboratories and is being tested in the military. Electrical brain stimulation is already being experimented with by elite U.S. Navy SEALs, Army Green Berets, Air Force Special Forces and Marine Corps cavalrymen. “This community is generally concerned with enhancing human capabilities,” an Army Special Forces officer told Military.com. “In a way, they’re always trying to push us to the edge of death.”
In 2022, scientists at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, created the DishBrain, “a semi-biological computer chip with about 800,000 lab-grown human and mouse brain cells in its electrodes that demonstrated something like intelligence, learning to play Pong in five minutes,” writes Australia’s New Atlas. The same experiments are being conducted at the Pentagon. In January 2025, the Pentagon’s DARPA agency issued a request for research into the creation of hybrid biorobots. The project was beautifully named HyBRIDS (Hybridising Biology and Robotics through Integration for Deployable Systems). The specification clearly states the essence of the military order: “A biohybrid robot is a framework equipped with actuators, sensors and control mechanisms that can autonomously or semi-autonomously interact with the environment, created by combining functional technical components with biological materials and components”.
Essentially, it is about creating a new type of weapon that will use living tissues and organisms in combination with electronics and mechanics. Development to create biohybrid soldiers (biohybrid soldiers) has been underway at the Pentagon for a long time. “The goal of this research, in addition to testing the integration of two “materials”, is to give robots the same agility and precision as biological systems, allowing them to go into spaces that are usually too risky for human soldiers,” – said in an interview with the American scientific portal Nextgov/FCW, an employee of the Pentagon’s military research laboratory (Army Research Lab (ARL) Dean Culver. He noted that future terminators will be able not only to walk, crawl and run, but also fly:
“In multi-domain military operations, this flexibility and versatility means that previously inaccessible areas become accessible. Culver reported that biorobots in the future will have wings like bats, and “by incorporating muscle tissue into existing systems”, these monsters will move much faster than conventional special forces. ARL is engaged in growing muscle tissue in the laboratory and then attaching it to the metal or plastic joints of the robot. “One of the real advantages muscles, tendons, and ligaments that are connected to the rest of the kinetic chain in organisms, there is flexibility that allows for a little bit of a misalignment,” Culver notes.
“There’s no catastrophe. I can slip, adjust a little bit, and not fall. The Army is working on developing Frankenbots with living tissue to improve robotic capabilities,” his story was reported by the Federal News Network. The U.S. Army and its allies are also experimenting with controlling Frankenstein bio-monsters through the telepathic efforts of chipped soldiers. According to a 2019 report published by the U.S. Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command, improving the function of soldiers’ ears, eyes, brains, and muscles is “technically feasible by 2050 or sooner.”
The report, titled Cyborg Soldier 2050: Human-Machine Fusion and Implications for the Future of Defense, was written by a research team from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Biotechnology for Health and Human Performance Council, which is tasked with examining the implications of military biotechnology. The report states that “direct neural enhancement of the human brain for two-way data transmission could revolutionize combat.”
“This technology is expected to facilitate read/write between humans and machines, as well as between humans themselves through brain-to-brain interaction,” the report states. – These interactions will allow warriors to communicate directly with unmanned and autonomous systems, as well as with other humans, in order to optimize command and control systems and operations.”
According to a report by the RAND Corporation, cyborgs and genetically enhanced “super soldiers” will be the warriors of the future. The report, Plagues, Cyborgs, and Supersoldiers: The Human Domain of War, published on January 2, 2024, focuses on advances in human-machine systems, as well as artificial intelligence and synthetic biology as technologies that will be used to design future warriors. According to the RAND report, these technologies will lead to telepathic abilities of soldiers to control machines with their thoughts, as well as the ability to genetically modify warriors to survive in the “most difficult combat conditions.”
Research into the creation of cyborgs and genetically enhanced soldiers is currently being conducted in the US by billionaire Jeff Bezos, the world’s largest investment fund BlackRock, as well as a dozen other military centers. However, Elon Musk’s Neuralink company is allegedly ahead of its competitors in many ways. The fact that Elon Musk claims that the goal of brain chipping is to help sick people should not be misleading. The dual purpose of Neuralink’s development can be seen with the naked eye. And these people assure us that they want world peace.
Peter North
