[Former OpenAI Researcher Leaves to Develop Non-Invasive Brain-Computer Interface, Enabling AI to Read Minds Without Surgery] According to monitoring by Beating, former OpenAI alignment researcher Naomi Bashkansky has left the company and joined brain-computer interface startup Conduit as a founding researcher. The company is developing a non-invasive 'mind-reading AI' that aims to interpret brain signals through a wearable device and convert thoughts into text. Conduit has already collected approximately 10,000 hours of brain signal and language data. Participants wear the device while conversing with AI or typing, allowing the model to learn the correlation between brain signals and language. Currently, it cannot read minds word-for-word but can infer general meanings. For example, if a user thinks, 'The room seems colder,' the model might interpret it as 'There’s a breeze.' Bashkansky compares this technology to the GPT-2 stage, believing that in the coming years, humans may be able to control AI directly with their thoughts. [Original Link]