[kranner]

> And he frequently gives credit to his team (and doesn't sit there patting himself on the back).

Yes, the list of authors on the whitepaper they released is "Elon Musk & Neuralink". I guess his team should be thankful.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6204648-Neuralink-Wh...

[SECProto]

As the other commenters said, that's not a research paper. Here is a link to an actual research paper where (at least some of) the authors work for neuralink.

https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(18)30993-0

[buboard]

thats a white paper , not the research paper (which is what ppl will read). You can also read it the other way around: He wanted to credit the entire Neuralink team, without claiming to be part if it or leading it

[kranner]

It would have read that way if the author list had simply said 'Neuralink'. He is definitely positioning himself as the leader here.

[frisco]

BioArxiv required at least one human author. We suggested this author list to him and, honestly, we just think it’s awesome.

[buboard]

Actually, the leader is usually the last author. The first author is usually the student doing the gruntwork