Elon Musk’s brain chip startup Neuralink has released a video of its first patient with the Telepathy chip. In it, Noland Arbaugh, 29, appears playing chess online controlling all the computer’s movements with your mind.

The young man had a diving accident eight years ago and was left tetraplegic from the shoulders down. Since then, he had had to give up many things, including playing chess, something he had always liked.

Arbaugh has become the first human to have Musk’s company chip implanted and, in the video, he explains how he has managed to develop this telepathy: “I tried to move my hand to the right, left and forward. That movement became intuitive for me. I looked at a place on the screen and the mouse moved where I wanted to”.

“The chip has changed my life,” he assures together with the head of brain interface software at Neuralink, Bliss Chapman, and adds that “the surgery was very easy” and that he was discharged the next day. As confirmed by Musk himself, Arbaugh had the chip implanted at the end of January. The company had already stated that the operation had gone well, but until now they had not published any proof of this.

Musk wanted to demonstrate the success of his first device, which aims integrate artificial intelligence into the human brain. This chip had already been tested previously on animals such as monkeys and pigs and, it is believed, that more than 2,000 died in the trials. Just a month ago, the United States Food and Drug Administration, found flaws in the records and quality controls of animal experiments. Something that Neuralink has not yet commented on.