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Former head of the NSA joins OpenAI board of directors
(engineering.vanderbilt.edu)
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this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2024
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Or maybe just the ones with interesting connotations behind them, like this one.
There is no interesting connotation associated with this.
A high up employee of the NSA is going to go work for a tech firm associated with AI and y'all are sitting there looking at it going 🤔🤔🤔. I wonder what that means.
Come on. Grow up.
Not a “high up employee”, the director of the NSA. The United States premier agency for gathering information on American Citizens. And he’s not “going to work for” OpenAI he’s joining as a board member of a company that’s one of the United States premier private companies for gathering information from American citizens.
That’s a whole hell of a lot of overlap, especially considering your suspicious attempt to downplay not only this connection, but the role of the man himself.
And what exactly do you think this situation is going to do exactly? This dude is going to dead drop microfilm under a park bench for the NSA to pick up?
Pick literally any other company that's working on AI right now (which is pretty much all of them) and have them hire this guy. Google, Apple, Microsoft... I bet you wouldn't be as "worried".
Furthermore, if you think that the US government and its various agencies, branches and affiliations haven't already been either using or exploiting AI for nefarious reasons. You're really naive.
You don’t think a “former” agent of the U.S. government agency with the explicit purpose of information gathering having a position of control in a private company with the explicit purpose of information gathering, might have a vested interest in that position beyond paying the bills? I suppose you think the corporate telco/isp lobbyists getting jobs at the FCC is all on the up and up as well.
Geez talk about naive. What is it that you think can’t happen?
I love the ongoing illogical downplaying you keep doing too. “Dead drop microfilm” lmao. How overdramatic.
The fact that you put former in quotations pretty much tells me everything I need to know.
People work in the government. They work in high-end positions. They even become directors, senators and congressmen and then they leave those positions and then they get other jobs. That doesn't mean that they are still somehow spying on that company for the government.
The government doesn't need to implant people into private companies that is completely unnecessary.
You need to get off this sub and go back r/conspiracy with your unsubstantiated anecdotal conspiratorial nonsense.