Max Hodak on restoring vision, brain interfaces, and substrate independence

In this No Priors interview, Max Hodak describes Science’s Prima retinal prosthesis and the company’s device-first approach to restoring visual signals for people with blindness. He argues that brain-computer interfaces should be understood as a broad medical and technical category, discusses possible alignment between AI-model and neural representations, and contrasts brain-to-AI communication with longer-term work on sensory restoration, healthspan, and substrate independence.