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by jesselawson 726 days ago
Perhaps others may make inferences about what a board appointment to a company with growing influence in government security matters means based on the appointee’s history in government security leadership.
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Right!

Like how some of OpenAI's current challenges include a) not leaking everything they create to the PRC and b) not having their tools abused for disinformation campaigns, so they appointed someone with leadership experience in keeping secrets from the PRC and combating disinformation campaigns.

Or did you mean "NSA man bad"?

This is a salient counterpoint and seems like a reasonable alternative explanation for the appointment. Thank you for that!