Social Former NSA Director gets appointed to OpenAi board; Edward Snowden disapproves & wants everyone to strike a mutiny

[Rhood]

Edward Snowden wrote on social media to his nearly 6 million followers, "Do not ever trust @OpenAI ... You have been warned," following the appointment of retired U.S. Army General Paul Nakasone to the board of the artificial intelligence technology company.

Nakasone is a former NSA director, and the longest-serving leader of the U.S. Cyber Command and chief of the Central Security Service. He retired from the NSA, a position he held since 2018, in February.
"As a first priority, Nakasone will join the Board's Safety and Security Committee," the OpenAI announcement reads.

Edward Snowden releases new message: "You have been warned"

Edward Snowden warned the public about OpenAI after the artificial intelligence company announced a former NSA director as a new board member.

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[PhitePhan]

Sounds a lot like how big wigs from the FDA go on to work for pharmaceutical companies… business as usual.

 

[Fluffernutter]

He must have a very large Rolodex filled with people that can help that company with what they want.

 

[RemyR]

I mean, Snowden's been right in the past...

 

[Fox by the Sea]

Military Surveillance Complex in full swing.

 

[Siver!]

Who are these people, and how do I feel about them?

 

[lilelvis]

They

Who are these people, and how do I feel about them?

are the agencies that are accidentally storing every move you make, everything you say, type, buy, probably think, where you go, where your vehicles go, how they’re running, what your tire pressure is, what your every preference is, strictly for your own protection and well being.

 

[Ruprecht]

Interesting move right when he announces they might ditch the non-profit board (unpaid and no equity).

 

[ShadowRun]

lol at people listening to Snowden, his skills are low tier .

 

[GoldenWolf87]

I mean, Snowden's been right in the past...

I would believe him. Your right he has being right.

This AI stuff is getting concerning.
From these same Movie Studios recruiting voice actors and these same companies then not letting the voice actors know that their voice will be stolen and reused by an AI software..

 

[Ruprecht]

I would believe him. Your right he has being right.

This AI stuff is getting concerning.
From these same Movie Studios recruiting voice actors and these same companies then not letting the voice actors know that their voice will be stolen and reused by an AI software..

If the boogey man of AI gets people to take data security and privacy seriously, that'd be fantastic. I can't see it happening though.
The amount of data collected, and the tools for that collection, have expanded massively since Snowden made the US Government's actions explicit. Yet it's not a fundamentally new development, and people are still broadcasting themselves and seeking attention online.
Anyone posting their videos publicly on youtube or social media probably already has enough material for someone to "deepfake" porn, extortion videos etc etc.

AI is being massively hyped, but even the more pragmatic interpretations of LLMs as tools for abstraction of programming and data manipulation, means that data tasks which previously required specialised knowledge and skills to implement, will effectively be accessible by anyone online.

The fact that the "superalignment" team (Sutskever, Leike, Aschenbrenner) has mostly either retired or been fired (tensions supposedly over Altman's plan to involve the Saudis in developing their own line of AI processors and compute capacity). Open AI has already dropped their stance against developing military implementations earlier this year. Now Altman is talking about transitioning to a commercial model and ditching the non-profit oversight, and then introducing the ex-NSA director to their board, which says it all about the nature of that commercialisation..

 

[fungi]

If anyone thinks this AI stuff is beneficial for humanity, he/she is beyond naivete.
Completely lost.

 

[Michaelangelo]

Free SnowGOAT

 

[Osculater]

Too bad White boy is now Russian

 

[RemyR]

Too bad White boy is now Russian

Not exactly by choice

 

[Osculater]

Not exactly by choice

 

[RemyR]

 

[Osculater]

Yup

 

[RemyR]

Yup

Yes

 

[GoldenWolf87]

Too bad White boy is now Russian

He had no choice.