Bill Maher

I think that's a wonderful idea.

I think that that's going to ruffle some feathers at some of the, let's say, wealthier institutions.

But endowments are very, you know, are thick at certain places, right?

There's a lot of money sitting in the endowments of these places.

Holding in there with some other top places, like in Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavia.

And I will tell you, China is, in terms of brain machine interface, inserting chips into the brain of non-human primates and humans to do increasing memory, novel ways of using AI for cognition.

They are miles ahead of us.

What do you mean non-human primates?

Macaque monkeys is the typical model.

Very hard to do that work in the United States because it's very expensive and it's dangerous.

Macaque monkeys carry something called, it's a form of herpes that kills humans.

They get a cold sore.

People have died from this.

There was a woman in Atlanta who had some monkeys.

How do you get a cold sore from a monkey?

Well, no, the monkeys splash

urine in her eye.

It was deadly.

She was dead within a couple weeks.

Is that right?