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>Tasha McCauley holds a B.A. from Bard College and a master of Business Administration from the University of South California.

>Helen Toner holds an MA in Security Studies from Georgetown, as well as a BSc in Chemical Engineering and a Diploma in Languages from the University of Melbourne.

So these are the AI experts...?

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Sam Altman holds.. no degree? So presumably using their academic qualifications as a basis for their eligibility for the board of OpenAI is as silly as using Mr Altman’s?

Would you give him the benefit of the doubt as an “AI expert” because of his well know work experience at YC? Without discussing their careers at all this comment seems at best unhelpful.

there is a tsunami of publicity on this topic, going for months on end.. This short exposition bubbles up to the front page of YNews. Reading it you can see that it quickly moves from "AI Companies are doing this.." to direct anecdotes about OpenAI and their infamous origin of being totally helpful and open. Sum the parts with those bios you point out, and you can see that this is intellectually shallow waters with young companies spoken by young voices. Why jump on that harsh interpretation? evidence is in the choice of seatbelts in Dept of Transportation regs to compare to safety. What meatspace regulations are adequate metaphor for what is going on in digital transaction space.? really not showing any effort by the authors, and confirming that this is a made-for-headline news level essay.

Why don't you read some of Helen's papers and make a more informed analysis? https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NNnQg0MAAAAJ&hl=en

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