Naomi Bashkansky urges against building Conduit telepathy

The author argues that developing brain-computer interfaces or telepathy-like AI integration is an extremely dangerous endeavor that will inevitably lead to severe social harms, privacy violations, and a race-to-the-bottom. Through a speculative narrative spanning from 2027 to 2040, the text illustrates how unfiltered thoughts linked to AI agents could facilitate crimes, corporate overreach, and dystopian surveillance. The author concludes with a direct plea to researchers not to pursue this technology. Open article →