It's an unnecessary and potentially dangerous surgery
It is completely unclear how long the implant could even stay in/on the brain. Current implanted electrodes for example cause scarring of the brain tissue and often need to be removed after a few years (so another dangerous surgery).
The whole thing sounds really stupid because the research is nowhere near the things Elon is promising. Sure, you can use it as a type of neural pacemaker for people suffering from seizures, parkinson's, treatment resistant depression, etc. but reliving memories!? I would really like to meet the researcher that can tell me with a straight face, that they understand how memories are created, stored, and retrieved; let alone being able to accurately code them in a digital format for replaying.
The ethical and societal repercussions from this kind of technology in general are not well understood, potentially grim, and seem to have precious little impact on product development. I really hope that ethics will become a mandatory addition to every engineering and computer science field all the way through graduate school.
Sorry this thing makes me irrationally angry somehow 😅
Short answer: no.
Long answer:
Sorry this thing makes me irrationally angry somehow 😅
This article covers my reaction to the presentation pretty well: I was excited for Neuralink. Then I watched Elon Musk’s stupid demo