Naomi Bashkansky left OpenAI for Conduit's telepathy bet
The former alignment researcher joined a San Francisco team training models on thousands of hours of non-invasive neural recordings.
By Ryan Merket · Published
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Why it matters
Conduit is applying the data-and-scale strategy behind frontier AI models to neural interfaces, betting that a large cross-person dataset can turn lab-grade decoding into a wearable product.
Naomi Bashkansky (@NaomiBashkansky) resigned from OpenAI on July 23rd and joined Conduit the next day as a founding researcher, moving from frontier-model alignment into a startup trying to translate non-invasive brain recordings into text.…
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