# OpenAI Safety Researcher Leaves to Build Non-Invasive Brain-to-Text Interface

Naomi Bashkansky, a 23-year-old former OpenAI model-safety researcher, joined the startup Conduit, which says it has assembled roughly 10,000 hours of neural data from thousands of people without implanted electrodes.

- Published: 2026-08-07T14:43:44.448Z
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Naomi Bashkansky, a former OpenAI researcher on the company's model safety and alignment team, has left to join Conduit, a San Francisco startup building non-invasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), as a founding researcher, according to…

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