Every timw you get the head of some governmental three-letter agency joining the board of a major tech corporation, it's almost always related to that corporation going for some major government contracts.

Case example: General Keith Alexander joins Amazon, 2020

> "The high-ranking appointment of the former commander of the US Cyber Command comes as Amazon Web Services continues to dispute the Department of Defense's award of a $10 billion military cloud contract to rival Microsoft"

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/former-nsa-head-k...

Result (2022):

> "An AWS spokesperson said: “We’re honored that after thorough review, the NSA selected AWS as the cloud provider for the Hybrid Compute Initiative, and we’re ready to help deliver this critical national security capability.”"

https://fedscoop.com/nsa-re-awards-10b-wildandstormy-cloud-c...

A good bet is that OpenAI is going full-tilt for major government contracts in the secrecy world as a means to bump revenue as their private sector business doesn't really seem to be booming. This is not unusual in the tech sector - IBM for example survived for at least a decade during the Depression by running the government's Social Security program - but this means OpenAI is now in the mass surveillance business.