Why I'm leaving OpenAI to build telepathy
Naomi Bashkansky, a former OpenAI researcher, explains why she quit to co-found Conduit, a company building thought-to-text models trained on non-invasive neural data. She envisions a future where we communicate with AI through thoughts, describes the scaling laws that make it feasible, and shares her excitement about the audacious vision, brilliant colleagues, and fun research problems.
My thoughts get sent to Conduit's model, which uses its priors over language and the kinds of things I might say to output: conduit://thought-stream → codex $ decode --source=neural-latent --autosend --to=codex