Retired U.S. Army General Paul Nakasone appointed to OpenAI Board of Directors
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The founding director of Vanderbilt University’s Institute for National Defense and Global Security, retired General Paul Nakasone, has been appointed to OpenAI’s Board of Directors as a member of its Safety and Security Committee. Nakasone previously served as commander of U.S. Cyber Command, director of the National Security Agency and chief of the Central Security […]
  • gmtom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    5 months ago

    Lmao my dyslexic ass read this as “formedlr head of NASA” and was confused why everyone was so doomy about itm

  • mechoman444@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    5 months ago

    We should do this for literally all people getting jobs: former waffle House line cook gets job at amazon sorting center.

      • mechoman444@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        5 months ago

        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.

        • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          5 months ago

          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.

          • mechoman444@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            5 months ago

            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.

            • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              5 months ago

              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.

              • mechoman444@lemmy.worldEnglish
                11·
                5 months ago

                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.