Former head of NSA joins OpenAI board (www.theverge.com)
from jorge@feddit.cl to technology@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 00:56
https://feddit.cl/post/3124604

Paul M. Nakasone stepped down as NSA director in February and will now join the company’s Sam Altman-led safety team.

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DeathbringerThoctar@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 01:00 next collapse

I’m pretty sure no part of this is a good thing

octopus_ink@lemmy.ml on 14 Jun 01:52 collapse

I seriously feel like the headline is 1984’s backstory.

autotldr@lemmings.world on 14 Jun 01:00 next collapse

This is the best summary I could come up with:

OpenAI has appointed Paul M. Nakasone, a retired general of the US Army and a former head of the National Security Agency (NSA), to its board of directors, the company announced on Thursday.

Nakasone, who was nominated to lead the NSA by former President Donald Trump, directed the agency from 2018 until February of this year.

OpenAI says Nakasone will join its Safety and Security Committee, which was announced in May and is led by CEO Sam Altman, “as a first priority.” Nakasone will “also contribute to OpenAI’s efforts to better understand how AI can be used to strengthen cybersecurity by quickly detecting and responding to cybersecurity threats.”

Recent departures tied to safety at OpenAI include co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, who played a key role in Sam Altman’s November firing and eventual un-firing, and Jan Leike, who said on X that “safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products.”

“Artificial intelligence has the potential to have huge positive impacts on people’s lives, but it can only meet this potential if these innovations are securely built and deployed,“ board chair Bret Taylor said in a statement.

OpenAI’s board of directors now includes Nakasone, Altman, Adam D’Angelo, Larry Summers, Bret Taylor, Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, Nicole Seligman, and Fidji Simo.

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TheBigBrother@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 01:03 next collapse

LMAO…

Read my name…

Lemminary@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 02:06 next collapse

Oh, you beetlejuicer you!

pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 14 Jun 07:12 collapse

lemmy.world makes it even better being the largest instance

UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 01:08 next collapse

Patriot Act again

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 01:42 collapse

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helenslunch@feddit.nl on 14 Jun 02:10 next collapse

RHE T

PATRIOT

AGT

SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml on 14 Jun 17:28 collapse

It’s not cool to make fun of someone’s speech impediment…

xavier666@lemm.ee on 14 Jun 09:06 collapse

Yes, AI art is at it again

OsaErisXero@kbin.run on 14 Jun 01:19 next collapse

Well, so much for that

FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today on 14 Jun 02:42 collapse

You should never have expected less.

xenomor@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 01:34 next collapse

It’s remarkable how quickly OpenAI has speed run into evilcorp status.

HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth on 14 Jun 02:33 collapse

I'm pretty sure it's was never not evil

oce@jlai.lu on 14 Jun 04:38 collapse

There’s probably a bunch of idealistic engineers dreaming to change the world for the better in the beginning, easily tamed by large amounts of cash when it starts to turn darker.

HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth on 14 Jun 14:18 collapse

Sure but OpenAI turned Evil so fast no way it's was not the plan from the start

Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de on 14 Jun 02:06 next collapse

The NSA stands humbled next to OpenAIs data stealing collection abilities.

Aqarius@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 06:08 collapse

Why steal data when you can just make it up!

xavier666@lemm.ee on 14 Jun 09:05 collapse

Saying “my source is I made it up” used to be a meme. Now it’s an essential business feature

helenslunch@feddit.nl on 14 Jun 02:12 next collapse

Well that’s not concerning at all…

TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml on 14 Jun 02:29 next collapse

That’s certainly reassuring.

BaroqueInMind@kbin.run on 14 Jun 02:51 next collapse

This is actually good news in disguise.

Iceman@lemmy.ca on 14 Jun 03:56 collapse

Much in the same way as your comment is a panicked scream in disguise?

just_another_person@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 03:09 next collapse

Gee, I wonder what kind of contracts they are looking to lock down…

ZetaLightning94@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 03:33 next collapse

A non-technical person overseeing engineers… riddle me surprised…

electric_nan@lemmy.ml on 14 Jun 04:13 next collapse

I love the idea of an unaccountable spy agency using alpha technology that hallucinates answers with complete confidence /s

Murdoc@sh.itjust.works on 14 Jun 13:47 collapse

something something wmds…

Fedizen@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 04:28 next collapse

yup

xavier666@lemm.ee on 14 Jun 04:46 collapse

Mr. Wolfie “SheepEater” Fangs joins “Sheep Protection Service” as a board member

Murdoc@sh.itjust.works on 14 Jun 13:46 next collapse

Didn’t I see that in a cartoon? Sam and Ralph?

xavier666@lemm.ee on 14 Jun 16:08 collapse

I actually made it up. But it’s based on a comic. 😛

Fedizen@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 17:08 collapse

imo its more like Mr Wolfe joins “Leopards and associates” for a slice of the sheep dividends

ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 04:39 next collapse

They already have Larry Summers, the laziest has-been “economist” on Earth. Sam Altman is similarly a charismatic fraud who continuously fails up. I don’t know anything about Paul Nakasone but given his NSA connections, this might be the worst board in history.

phoneymouse@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 06:16 collapse

You know Henry Kissinger would be there too if he wasn’t dead and buried.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 16:19 collapse

This sparks joy

SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml on 14 Jun 17:27 collapse

If that brings you joy, maybe you might like the Behind the Bastards episodes on Kissinger. Just to really cement in you mind what a piece of shit he was. And also to find out that at one point he was a bit of a sex symbol, which I personally find, at minimum, mildly disturbing.

cmbabul@lemmy.world on 16 Jun 18:20 collapse

I relistened to it the whole series on him the night he dies while drinking champagne. Felt good

SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml on 16 Jun 22:04 collapse

It’s a rare thing for me to celebrate someone’s death, but it’s a shame he didn’t kick off sooner.

1984@lemmy.today on 14 Jun 04:51 next collapse

Kind of obvious where this is going.

TechnoMystic@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 06:51 next collapse

The fox is in the hen house now… Perfect positioning to prevent any strategic rivals from taking advantage of the technology. All hail the new AI tech overlords… Humans will just use this new tech to accumulate even more wealth and power to themselves. This is what individualism does.

Stretch2m@lemm.ee on 14 Jun 08:31 next collapse

Please be the onion. Please be the onion.

CRAP!

cmbabul@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 13:19 next collapse

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

webghost0101@sopuli.xyz on 14 Jun 13:22 next collapse

Former head but active agent absolutely

Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee on 14 Jun 16:29 next collapse

“as a first priority.” Nakasone will “also contribute to OpenAI’s efforts to better understand how AI can be used to strengthen cybersecurity by quickly detecting and responding to cybersecurity threats.”

So what you’re saying is that the guy is there to setup data collection to feed to the NSA surrounding any and all inputs and ensure that the inputs are not able to be used for any meaningful intelligence actions by US competitors. Got it.

filister@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 18:01 next collapse

1984 + 40 = 2024

moon@lemmy.cafe on 14 Jun 21:08 next collapse

The safety team is perfect for him. AI “safety” has always just been a push to deem anything not under big corp’s control as a danger to profits society. If safety was the actual goal, then they should start with data collection and privacy. But I wonder why they wouldn’t want to mention that…

geography082@lemm.ee on 16 Jun 10:41 collapse

This is the real future evil . It’s impressive how OpenAI won the AI race by crawling faster in a legal hole the whole internet … and society being unaware . Just that. And governments are not doing a shit about it. They have centralized the biggest human database of information and trained a LLM . It’s exactly what happened in Westworld .