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.
Snowden, a former National Security Agency (NSA) subcontractor, was charged with espionage by the Justice Department in 2013 after leaking thousands of top-secret records, exposing the agency’s surveillance of private citizens’ information.
In a Friday morning post on X, formerly Twitter, Snowden reshared a post providing information on OpenAI’s newest board member. 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.
Snowden wrote in an X post, “They’ve gone full mask-off: do not ever trust @OpenAI or its products (ChatGPT etc.) There is only one reason for appointing an @NSAGov Director to your board. This is a willful, calculated betrayal of the rights of every person on Earth.” He concluded the post, writing, “You have been warned.”
This guy worked at the NSA for 15 months total over a decade ago. He’s been an internet warrior in Russia since then. I’m not sure Snowden’s got the credentials to make him a good source of info anymore.
Maybe, but he’s not wrong that appointing a former NSA director to the board of OpenAI sounds really bad.
Dude’s an American hero!
Maybe you don’t have the credentials to make an accurate assessment of his credentials
Yeah that comment got a weird vibe to it… As if the poster is glowing?
Watch Citizen Four documentary or read his book if you want to go beyond the internet surface, you’ll be better armed to understand his credentials.
NSA really mad he proved the conspiracies right.
Your credential though? Having thumbs. Well done.
And I am not giving information to news outlets
Don’t really need the credentials here. The publicity is more important.