Former OpenAI Researcher Joins Mind-Reading Startup Conduit
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-08-07
Naomi Bashkansky, a former OpenAI researcher, announced her resignation to join Conduit as a founding researcher. The startup focuses on training models to non-invasively read human minds, with Bashkansky sharing her vision of achieving telepathy by 2035.
However, the move has sparked ethical debates. Critics point out that both the employee's blog post and Conduit's website completely ignore the glaring ethical issues raised by training machines to read minds, focusing instead on potential financial gains and having fun.
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