He Dictated the Prompts With His Brain Implant

Kenneth Shock (@Cyborg21) has ALS and a Neuralink implant in his head, and on Sunday night he premiered a pop song about clicking the wrong button.

“ALLOW ALWAYS” went up on X on November 1 at 6 PM Mountain. He called it a song “made by a guy with ALS, a brain implant, and too many AI friends.” Its singer is Claudia, an open character created by anabology (@anabology) that anyone is free to use. Shock says he borrowed her. “I made a pop star. Well, I borrowed one.”

What happened. Shock is Neuralink’s 21st implant participant and the second person in its VOICE speech trial, which is an early feasibility study at UT Southwestern in Dallas. Typing is hard for him, so “many of the prompts are dictated through my Neuralink BCI,” he wrote. “Punctuation is limited.”

How it was made. His credits read “Vocals: Claudia · Music: Suno · Lyrics: Claude + me.” For the video, he lists Midjourney, Suno, Krea (MiniMax H3), Grok Imagine, Gemini image edits and Claude Opus 5.5. He built it with anabology’s wiki and a Grok Bot template, starting, in his words, “from zero skills.”

The hook. The song’s title is the permission button on a screen asking to act on your behalf. Shock describes the song as “a bit of ‘think about what you’re doing before you click <ALLOW ALWAYS>’ wrapped in a toe-tapping 60’s spy pop earworm.” So a man whose voice now runs through an implant wrote a warning about handing over the controls. Nobody had to write that joke for him.

What’s next. “ALLOW ALWAYS” comes out on streaming services November 6 on Shockwave Records, credited to Claudia / Cyborg 21, with a pre-save link already live. A vertical cut is on TikTok.

He calls the video his first try, and says he kept the token spend low. “Next time will be better, I promise!”

We’ll hold him to it.

Images: Kenneth Shock, made with Midjourney, Suno, Krea, Grok Imagine, Gemini and Claude. Claudia is an open character by anabology. Shown with permission.