{"id":43746,"date":"2024-06-18T14:56:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T18:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=43746"},"modified":"2024-06-25T16:10:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T20:10:40","slug":"former-head-of-nsa-joins-openai-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/18\/former-head-of-nsa-joins-openai-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Head of NSA Joins OpenAI Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/6\/13\/24178079\/openai-board-paul-nakasone-nsa-safety\">Jay Peters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/6\/13\/24178079\/openai-board-paul-nakasone-nsa-safety\">\n<p>OpenAI has appointed Paul M. Nakasone, a retired general of the US Army and a former head of the National Security Agency (NSA), to its board of directors, <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/openai-appoints-retired-us-army-general\/\">the company announced on Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nakasone, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/02\/13\/nsa-cyber-command-nakasone-337114\">nominated to lead the NSA<\/a> by former President Donald Trump, directed the agency from 2018 until February of this year. Before Nakasone left the NSA, he wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2024\/02\/14\/nsa-director-paul-nakasone-section-702-fisa\/\">an op-ed<\/a> supporting the renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the surveillance program that was ultimately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/4\/20\/24135339\/fisa-720-reauthorization-senate-lapse-durbin-wyden\">reauthorized by Congress in April<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Snowden\/status\/1801610725229498403\">Edward Snowden<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/privacy\/comments\/1dfrojd\/former_head_of_nsa_joins_openai_board\/?rdt=53556\">Reddit<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=40685644\">Hacker News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2024\/06\/14\/edward-snowden-eviscerates-openai-paul-nakasone-board-directors-decision\/\">Fortune<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/edward-snowden-open-ai-nsa-warning-1913173\">Newsweek<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Snowden\/status\/1801610725229498403\"><p>They&rsquo;ve gone full mask-off: <em>do not ever<\/em> trust \n@OpenAI\n or its products (ChatGPT etc). There is only one reason for appointing an \n@NSAGov\n Director to your board. This is a willful, calculated betrayal of the rights of every person on Earth. You have been warned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/10\/apple-intelligence-announced\/\">Apple Intelligence Announced<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/04\/proposed-eu-chat-control\/\">Proposed EU Chat Control<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/20\/sutskever-and-leike-out-at-openai\/\">Sutskever and Leike Out at OpenAI<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/14\/criticism-of-signal\/\">Criticism of Signal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/24\/extending-section-702-of-fisa\/\">Extending Section 702 of FISA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/26\/data-analytical-services-das\/\">Data Analytical Services (DAS)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/17\/altman-and-brockman-out-at-openai\/\">Altman and Brockman Out at OpenAI<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/15\/odni-report-on-commercially-available-information\/\">ODNI Report on Commercially Available Information<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/03\/openai-is-today-unrecognizable\/\">OpenAI Is Today Unrecognizable<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"former-head-of-nsa-joins-openai-board-update-2024-06-25\">Update (2024-06-25): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2024\/06\/paul-nakasone-joins-openais-board-of-directors.html\">Bruce Schneier<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Peters: OpenAI has appointed Paul M. Nakasone, a retired general of the US Army and a former head of the National Security Agency (NSA), to its board of directors, the company announced on Thursday. Nakasone, who was nominated to lead the NSA by former President Donald Trump, directed the agency from 2018 until February [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-06-18T18:56:34Z","apple_news_api_id":"d314c116-f32c-47ed-b117-041edd459660","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-06-25T20:10:47Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A0xTBFvMsR-2xFwQe3UWWYA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2602,1351,2317,31,2586,30,2598,705,2361,355,96],"class_list":["post-43746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-chatgpt","tag-ios","tag-ios-18","tag-mac","tag-macos-15-sequoia","tag-nsa","tag-openai","tag-privacy","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43746"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43857,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43746\/revisions\/43857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}