OpenAI says the next AI keyboard is your voice. The privacy pitch has no auditor.

OpenAI president Greg Brockman says voice is about to replace the keyboard as the default way people talk to AI, and he is pitching the privacy of those conversations on the company's own word.

In an interview with Joanna Stern re-reported by The Verge, Brockman said OpenAI is building a "family of devices" for its chatbots and that users will "shift" from typing to speaking for the "vast majority of what we do." He cited the "beak" soundproof masks appearing in open offices as evidence voice-in-public has unmet product-market fit, then conceded the masks are not the answer.

Brockman declined to confirm reports of a 2027 smart speaker or a Humane AI Pin-style wearable, an earlier AI wearable that launched to poor reviews and was later acquired. No release date, only "soon."

Brockman named no third-party auditor, no standard, and no timeline for the "verifiable, auditable guarantees" he said OpenAI is building around private AI data. He framed the promise as a response to ChatGPT's "temporary chat" mode, a setting meant to keep a conversation out of training.

The OpenAI–Jony Ive hardware collaboration is pre-existing. On Apple's lawsuit over that work, Brockman said: "We are focused on our own development and technology. We have no interest in other companies' trade secrets."

The device will land. The privacy guarantee is the one to watch.