Not sure what to make of this
No reasons to be concerned, citizen. The former head of the largest surveillance agency in the world just joined as a C-level member to the largest data scraping company in the world
Ok that makes sense. I don’t like this.
You will tell the AI all of your most private thoughts and feelings. The AI will be your closest friend, lover, and confidant.
If you refuse to let the AI know everything about you, you will be considered a terrorist pedophile… a TERROR-PEDO!
How dare you have secrets? What are you hiding there? Why are you trying to have privacy? How dare you?
Remain calm. Assume the position. Your patience is appreciated. A legally authorized operative will be with you shortly. Stop resisting. Or else it gets the hose again.
Remember that Friend Computer loves you. Returning that love TO Friend Computer is MANDATORY, and failure to comply will be considered treason and thus grounds for IMMEDIATE TERMINATION. Thank you citizen and have a mandatorily happy day!
It’s a bit of a non-story, beyond basic press release fodder.
In addition to it’s role as “digital panopticon”, they also have a legitimate role in cyber security assurance, and they’re perfectly good at it. The guy in question was the head of both the worlds largest surveillance entity, but also the world’s largest cyber security entity.
Opinions on the organization aside, that’s solid experience managing a security organization.
If open AI wants to make the case that they take security seriously, former head of the NSA, Cyber command and central security service as well as department director at a university and trustee at another university who has a couple masters degrees isn’t a bad way to try to send that message.Other comments said open AI is the biggest scraping entity on the planet, but that pretty handily goes to Google, or more likely to the actual NSA, given the whole “digital panopticon” thing and “Google can’t fisa warrant the phone company”.
Joining boards so they can write memos to the CEO/dean/regent/chancellor is just what former high ranking government people do. The job aggressively selects for overactive Leslie Knope types who can’t sit still and feel the need to keep contributing, for good or bad, in whatever way they think is important.
If the US wanted to influence open AI in some way, they’d just pay them. The Feds budget is big enough that bigger companies will absolutely prostrate themselves for a sample of it. Or if they just wanted influence, they’d… pay them.
They wouldn’t do anything weird with retired or “retired” officers when a pile of money is much easier and less ambiguous.At worst it’s open AI trying to buy some access to the security apparatus to get contracts. Seems less likely to me, since I don’t actually think they have anything valuable for that sector.
I don’t like it
I’m sure there’s nothing nefarious going on here.
“former”
Timothy D. Haugh is the current head. Nakasone is the former director of the NSA.
Thanks for official figures. However his comment is valid still.
Lmao my dyslexic ass read this as “formedlr head of NASA” and was confused why everyone was so doomy about itm
Those tech bros are up to something
I’m not alarmed. You’re alarmed.
Helen Toner was right
We should do this for literally all people getting jobs: former waffle House line cook gets job at amazon sorting center.
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.
