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Billionaire's Neuralink Baby Plan: Alexandr Wang Wants Super-Kids with Brain Chips!

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Length: 4 min
Language: English
Text from: the video's captions
Transcribed: 12 October 2026

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Summary

Alexandr Wang explains why he wants to wait to have children until brain-computer interfaces like Neuralink are working, arguing that kids' high neuroplasticity in their first seven years would let them integrate the technology far better than adults. He frames this pragmatically: AI will keep improving rapidly while human biology evolves slowly, so humans will eventually need a direct hookup to AI to keep pace. He acknowledges the idea is potentially dangerous and scary but believes it will be necessary.

Key points

Wang wants to wait to have kids until brain-computer interfaces like Neuralink are working.
The first seven years of life are when the brain is most neuroplastic, by an order of magnitude.
He cites children born with cataracts who never learn to see if the cataracts aren't removed until age eight or nine.
Kids born with Neuralink would learn to use it as a true part of their brain in ways adults never could.
AI will keep getting smarter and more capable, including through robots and other forms.
Humans only get smarter on the timescale of millions of years through slow natural selection.
Humanity will need to tap into AI directly to bring biological life alongside silicon-based intelligence.
He admits the technology is potentially dangerous and terrifying but says we're just going to have to do it.

Questions it answers

00:00Waiting for Neuralink

Why does Wang want to wait to have kids?

He wants to wait until brain-computer interfaces like Neuralink are working, because young children's brains are far more neuroplastic and would integrate the technology far better.

He's delaying kids until Neuralink-style interfaces work.
The first seven years of life are the most neuroplastic, by an order of magnitude.

Notes

Why wait to have kids

Wang wants to delay having children until Neuralink or other brain-computer interfaces are working.
His reasoning: the first seven years of life are when the brain is most neuroplastic, by an order of magnitude.

The cataract example

A child born with cataracts who doesn't get them removed until age eight or nine will never learn to see, even after removal.
The brain needs visual input in those first seven years to learn to read signals from the eyes.
By analogy, kids born with Neuralink would learn to use it in "crazy" ways, making it a true part of their brain — something an adult recipient could never achieve.

The AI argument

Wang works on AI and believes it will keep getting smarter, more capable, and more powerful.
AI will take on more forms over time, including robots.
Humans do get smarter, but only on the timescale of millions of years because natural selection and evolution are really slow.

The conclusion

Biology will improve only so fast while AI improves rapidly.
Humanity will need to bring biological life alongside silicon-based intelligence by tapping into AI directly.
Eventually we'll need an interlink between our brains and AI, the internet, and other systems.
He concedes it's potentially dangerous, terrifying, and scary — "but we just are going to have to do it."

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