Former OpenAI researcher predicts brain-controlled AI coding agents by 2027

Aug. 7, 2026 at 7:00 am GMT • 2 min read 01 Naomi Bashkansky left OpenAI and joined Conduit to build models that turn non-invasive neural recordings into text prompts. 02 She says a headband could decode rough intentions into AI coding prompts by 2027, with broader brain-to-AI milestones later. 03 Conduit has 10,000 hours of neuro-language data, but still has not shown public aggregate performance on free-form thought decoding.Former OpenAI alignment researcher Naomi Bashkansky said she resigned from the AI company on July 23 and joined Conduit the next day as a founding researcher. At Conduit, she will work on models designed to turn non-invasive neural recordings into text that can direct AI agents, a goal her essay calls “telepathy.”Bashkansky said she spent about 1.5 years at OpenAI, and described the new role in an Aug. 4 essay. She predicted that a headband could decode rough intentions into prompts for an AI coding agent in 2027.Her later scenarios envision AI systems consuming neural representations directly by 2030 and two-way “read and write” technology by 2035.She called those vignettes optimistic predictions, and the essay includes no launch commitment for any of them.C...