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The board was irresponsible and incompetent by design. There is one OpenAI board member who has an art degree and is part of some kind of cultish "singularity" spiritual/neo-religious thing. That individual has also never had a real job and is on the board of several other non-profits.

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> There is one OpenAI board member who has an art degree

Oh no! Everyone knows that progress is only achieved by people with computer science degrees.

People with zero experience in technology should simply not be allowed to make decisions about it.

This is how you get politicians that try to ban encryption to "save the children."

Why do you assume someone with an art degree has “zero experience with technology”? I assume many artists these days are highly sophisticated users of technology.

And we know politicians use technology too. Yet here we are.

But they are married to somebody famous, so obviously qualified.

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