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Former head of NSA joins OpenAI board (www.theverge.com)

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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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

“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.