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Prominent Women in Tech Say They Don't Want to Join OpenAI's All-Male Board (www.wired.com)
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After internal chaos earlier this month, OpenAI replaced the women on its board with men. As it plans to add more seats, Timnit Gebru, Sasha Luccioni, and other AI luminaries tell WIRED why they wouldn't join.

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[–] SquiffSquiff@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Article seems to be mainly about Timnit Gebru. I struggle to see ANY business wanting her on the board. Sasha luccioni, appears to be another AI Doomer, i.e. Up there with Helen toner who

said that if the company was destroyed as a result of Altman’s firing, that could be consistent with its mission, the New York Times reported.

And additionally reported:

The New York Times reported this week that in the weeks leading up to Altman’s firing, he and Toner had discussed an October paper she had co-authored for CSET.

In the paper, OpenAI is criticised for releasing ChatGPT at the end of last year, sparking “a sense of urgency inside major tech companies”, like Google, to ensure they did not fall behind and prompting competitors to “accelerate or circumvent internal safety and ethics review processes”.

Seriously, look at the people in the article, the organisations that they're associated with and the opinions they've publicly stated. The Doomers at open.ai tried a coup and failed. The Accels won. The current board surely wouldn't welcome or be welcoming to the Doomers. We're clearly well past the point where people can sensibly pretend that they can hold back the avalanche of A.I. from the board of a single company in the space.