OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is obsessed with codifying your biology. First it was scanning your eyeballs — and now it’s scanning your thoughts.

According to new reporting from the Sources by Alex Heath newsletter via The Verge, the billionaire’s new brain computer interface startup, Merge Labs, appears to be pursuing the use of ultrasound to read your mind.

The insight is based on a new hiring decision by Altman. He’s reportedly tapped Mikhail Shapiro, a famous biomolecular engineer from Caltech, to join the BCI startup, which is yet to be officially announced. Shapiro’s specialty has been researching non-invasive approaches for scanning the human brain which don’t require surgery, unlike the brain implants being developed by Elon Musk’s Neuralink.

In August, the Financial Times reported that

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