Musk said brain implants could eventually help paralyzed people regain full-body movement: If Hawking had this...

Musk said on Wednesday that implants from his brain-computer interface company Neuralink could eventually help paralyzed people like Hawking regain full-body movement. Neuralink announced Wednesday that it has begun recruiting volunteers for its first-in-human clinical trial, and that patients with quadriplegia due to cervical spinal cord injury or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) may be eligible.

Musk retweeted Neuralink's post and wrote: "The first human patient will soon receive Neuralink's device. This could ultimately make it possible to restore full-body movement."

He continued: "In the long term, Neuralink hopes to play a role in reducing the risks of artificial intelligence to civilization by increasing the bandwidth between humans and AI (and between humans) by orders of magnitude."

Musk concluded by writing: "Imagine if Stephen Hawking had this."

In another post, Musk shared a video of Luke Skywalker from the movie "Star Wars" installing a robotic arm and wrote: "When Neuralink is combined with the limbs of (Tesla's) Optimus Prime robot, Luke Skywalker's solution can become a reality."