[halfjoking]

I'm going to be the only one in this thread calling it this.

But why does no one think it's possible these women are CIA operatives?

They come from think tanks. You think the US Intelligence community wants AGI to be discovered at a startup? They want it created at big tech. AGI under MSFT would be perfect. All big tech is heavily compromised: https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247

EDIT: Since this heavy speculation, I'm going to make predictions. These women will now try to force Ilya out the board, put in a CEO not from Silicon Valley, and eventually get police to shut down OpenAI offices. That's a CIA coup

[solardev]

Couldn't the CIA have sent people with, er, slightly more media experience and tactfulness and such? Did these few just happen to lose a bet or something...?

Maybe somebody there just really wanted to see the expression on Satya's face...

[trefoiled]

Weirdly plausible considering Tasha McCauley also works for the RAND Corporation