Against telepathy—or, Conduit should engage with authoritarianism concerns

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Against telepathy; a critical analysis of Naomi Bashkansky’s blog post “Why I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy”; on responsibility and technology; Conduit should hire a head of communications

Naomi Bashkansky@NaomiBashkansky Two weeks ago, I resigned from OpenAI to join Conduit as a founding researcher, where we're training models to non-invasively read the human mind. I've written some thoughts about what telepathy could look like by 2035 and how to get there: 4:42 PM · Aug 5, 2026 · 2.91M Views 1.2K Replies · 935 Reposts · 8.86K Likes A few weeks ago, Naomi Bashkansky tweeted a link to her blog post Why I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy. It explains her decision to leave OpenAI and join Conduit, a San Francisco-based startup “[building] telepathy at scale—where nothing…

Against telepathy—or, Conduit should engage with authoritarianism concerns

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