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A governance move that reads as a credibility play carries an embedded contradiction.
Paul Christiano, a top US official named to OpenAI's non-profit board, has warned that advanced artificial intelligence could be deadly, and that without stronger safety features the technology could kill most people.
The company just handed oversight authority to someone who believes the product it is building may not yet be safe enough. The case for reading this appointment as a net positive for OpenAI is real.
A top US official on the non-profit board gives the company a credible safety voice at the governance level, and the appointment puts that voice inside the structure rather than outside it.
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