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
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.