Artificial Intelligence
What shall we call it?
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Artificial intelligence? I no longer know what to call it. OpenAI is no longer a non-profit and has forfeited its .ai domain. OpenAI has announced new members to the board of directors. These include three new members to the board of Directors: Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Nicole Seligman, former EVP and General Counsel at Sony Corporation, and Fidji Simo, CEO and Chair of Instacart. Additionally, Sam Altman, CEO, will rejoin the OpenAI Board of Directors.
Sue, Nicole, and Fidji have experience leading global organizations and navigating complex regulatory environments, including backgrounds in technology, nonprofit, and board governance. They will work closely with current board members Adam D’Angelo, Larry Summers, and Bret Taylor, as well as Sam and OpenAI’s senior management.
Bret Taylor, Chair of the OpenAI board, stated, “I am excited to welcome Sue, Nicole, and Fidji to the OpenAI Board of Directors. Their experience and leadership will enable the Board to oversee OpenAI’s growth, and to ensure that we pursue OpenAI’s mission of ensuring artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.”
Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann is a non-profit leader and physician. Dr. Desmond-Hellmann currently serves on the Boards of Pfizer and the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. She previously was a Director at Procter and Gamble, Meta (Facebook), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute. She served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation from 2014 to 2020. From 2009-2014, she was Professor and Chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), the first woman to hold the position. She also previously served as President of Product Development at Genentech, where she played a leadership role in the development of the first gene-targeted cancer drugs.
Nicole Seligman is a globally recognized corporate and civic leader and lawyer. She currently serves on three public company corporate boards - Paramount Global, MeiraGTx Holdings PLC, and Intuitive Machines, Inc. Seligman held several senior leadership positions at Sony entities, including EVP and General Counsel at Sony Corporation, where she oversaw functions including global legal and compliance matters. She also served as President of Sony Entertainment, Inc., and simultaneously served as President of Sony Corporation of America. Seligman also currently holds nonprofit leadership roles at the Schwarzman Animal Medical Center and The Doe Fund in New York City. Previously, Seligman was a partner in the litigation practice at Williams & Connolly LLP in Washington, D.C., working on complex civil and criminal matters and counseling a wide range of clients, including President William Jefferson Clinton and Hillary Clinton. She served as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme Court of the United States.
The new directors have a portfolio of expertise, ranging from technology, pharmaceuticals and global legal experience.
Notably absent from the board is an expert on ethics.
However, some of the experts serve internally.
Here are some of the key figures in this field:
Gebru: A former co-lead of the Ethical AI team at Google, Gebru has been instrumental in uncovering biases in AI systems and advocating for more transparent and inclusive practices. She co-founded Black in AI and the Distributed AI Research Institute, and founded the Ethics and Society division at DeepMind.
Bengio: A leading expert in AI ethics, Bengio has held prestigious royal honors and founded Quebec’s AI Institute, “Mila.” He is a co-founder of DeepMind and continues to be a leader at the Montreal Declaration for the Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence.
Crawford: A Microsoft Senior Principal Researcher, Crawford co-founded the AI Now Institute at NYU and has published articles on social change in AI. She emphasizes the dire social implications of unregulated AI and focuses on issues such as labor, bias, and power dynamics.
These experts are just a few examples of the many individuals who are making a difference in the field of AI ethics. Their work continues to shape the future of AI and ensure that it is being developed responsibly and ethically.
Another issue is the integration of several platforms by entities known for search engines, such as Google (Gemini), Microsoft (Copilot), and Amazon (Nova).