OpenAI Brain Drain: Researcher Leaves to Found Brain-Computer Interface Startup
TinfoilTricorn · x · 2026-08-06
OpenAI researcher Naomi Bashkansky announced her resignation to join Conduit as a founding researcher, focusing on training models to non-invasively read the human mind. She shared her thoughts on what 'telepathy' could look like by 2035 and how to achieve it, highlighting another wave of talent flowing from core AI labs into advanced cross-disciplinary fields like BCI.
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