About 22,000 people could receive a neurological implant Neuralink in 2030, one of the technology mogul’s projects Elon Musk.

While the idea has been around since 2016, the year Musk co-founded the company, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) only recently gave it permission to start clinical trials on humans this year.

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Neuralink had worked on it before clinical trials on animalsbut the FDA had denied the request to try it on humans, fearing the device would move or overheat.

“The first human patient will soon receive a Neuralink device. Ultimately this has the potential to restore movement to the entire body. In the long term, Neuralink hopes to play a role in reducing AI civilization risk by improving human-to-AI (and human-to-human) bandwidth by several orders of magnitude,” Musk wrote on his X account (formerly Twitter), social network of which he is the owner.

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With the green light, Neuralink started the process in September to recruit people who meet the conditions paralysis of all four limbs due to spinal cord injury or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

A total of 11 people will undergo surgery next year to introduce the neurological implant, which would be integrated into the patient’s brain, where it would record and potentially stimulate brain activity, Bloomberg reported.

This device is the size of a coin and has cables 14 times thinner than a strand of human hair coming out of it that connect to the brain.

Each of these cables has 1,024 electrodes that can monitor brain activityin addition to sending the collected data to a computer for analysis.

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According to Ashlee Vance, author of a biography of Musk, a surgeon would have to perform a craniectomy for “a few hours,” after which a robot would insert the device into the brain. (JO)