Chess Prodigy Leaves OpenAI to Build Startup Turning Thoughts Directly Into Text

Ever Been Glad Your Boss Can’t Read Your Mind? AI Companies Want to Change That

A former OpenAI researcher has joined a startup developing AI-powered brain interfaces, betting that thought-to-text technology will become the next major computing platform.

This Startup Will Pay You $50 to Let AI Read Your Mind

Humans have long dreamed of telepathically communicating with machines. Will Conduit succeed where others before it have failed?

OpenAI researcher Naomi Bashkansky leaves company to build ‘telepathy’ at Conduit

OpenAI researcher Naomi Bashkansky revealed on X that she has left OpenAI to join Conduit as a founding researcher. She mentioned that Conduit will be building telepathy through thought-to-text models, trained on “non-invasive neural data.” In a blog post, Bashkansky predicted that within a couple of years, the primary way people interact with AI will be through their thoughts. “They will not be a super-smart automated intern or coworker that yo…

Chess prodigy leaves OpenAI to build startup turning thoughts directly into text

Naomi Bashkansky joins Conduit as a founding scientist, predicting that within years people will communicate with AI through thought and that the company could be worth more than $1 trillion

OpenAI researcher Naomi Bashkansky resigns to build AI that can read thoughts

OpenAI researcher Naomi Bashkansky has left the company to join startup Conduit, where she will work on AI that turns thoughts into text. Her exit adds to the growing list of former OpenAI researchers leaving to build ambitious AI startups, including Ilya Sutskever's SSI.