OpenAI Alignment Researcher Leaves to Found BCI Startup Telepathy
borowcy · reddit · 2026-08-06
OpenAI alignment researcher Naomi Bashkansky announced she is leaving the company to build 'Telepathy,' a brain-computer interface (BCI) startup. This highlights a continuing trend of core talent from frontier AI labs moving into advanced hardware and interaction domains.
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