That viral video showing a head transplant is a fake. But it might be real someday.
That viral video showing a head transplant is a fake. But it might be real someday.
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**From the article:**
An [animated video](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1297980718256792) posted this week has a voice-over that sounds like a late-night TV ad, but the pitch is straight out of the far future. The arms of an octopus-like robotic surgeon swirl, swiftly removing the head of a dying man and placing it onto a young, healthy body.
This is BrainBridge, the animated video claims—“the world’s first revolutionary concept for a head transplant machine, which uses state-of-the-art robotics and artificial intelligence to conduct complete head and face transplantation.”
First posted on Tuesday, the video has millions of views, more than 24,000 comments on Facebook, and a content warning on TikTok for its grisly depictions of severed heads. A slick BrainBridge [website](http://brainbridge.tech/) has several job postings, including one for a “neuroscience team leader” and another for a “government relations adviser.” It is all convincing enough for the [New York Post](https://nypost.com/2024/05/22/us-news/scientists-announces-wild-plan-for-first-head-transplant/) to announce that BrainBridge is “a biomedical engineering startup” and that “the company” plans a surgery within eight years.
We can report that BrainBridge is not a real company—it’s not incorporated anywhere. The video was made by Hashem Al-Ghaili, a Yemeni science communicator and film director who in 2022 made a viral video called “EctoLife,” about artificial wombs, that [also left journalists scrambling to determine if it was real or not](https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N33C1L5/).
Yet BrainBridge is not merely a provocative work of art. This video is better understood as the first public billboard for a hugely controversial scheme to defeat death that’s recently been gaining attention among some life-extension proponents and entrepreneurs.
“It’s about recruiting newcomers to join the project,” says Al-Ghaili.
Why would you call body transplant a head transplant? Brain defines the person more than anything else.
Kenjaku technology.
It was FAKE 🤯
Did anyone think it was real?
This isn’t cyberpunk, rule 5.
I don’t even know where to redirect you honestly, maybe r/transhumanism ?