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I sincerely don't give a shit and am just kibitzing but: why would this be a conflict of interest at all? One of OpenAI's biggest strategic concerns is getting out from under Nvidia. OpenAI is never going to do hardware; they don't even want to rack servers. The ultimate customer for a new AI chip would be Microsoft, not OpenAI. OpenAI is research and software. Hardware is a complement, not a competitor.

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You seriously don't see a conflict of interest with a board member and CEO creating a separate company that sells to the company he is the CEO of? That is the definition of conflict of interest.

Yeah something can be potentially net good for a company but still be a COI. If I'm in charge of awarding military contracts and I give it to a armaments company my son is a VP of, and I didn't disclose to anybody that my son was a VP there, this is a clear COI even if I later argue (and people agree with me!) that my son's armaments company is best suited for the business.

At the very minimum I should not be the one to make that call.

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