Now that we’ve seen that generative artificial intelligence can be trained ethically, without breaking copyright laws, the list of people to the DHS Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board seems less than ideal.

The Board is supposed to ‘advance AI’s responsible development and deployment’ (emphasis mine), yet some on that Board took shortcuts.

Shortcuts in relation to any national security issue seems like a bad thing.

Here’s the list.

• Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI (Lawsuits galore over copyright); 
• Dario Amodei, CEO and Co-Founder, Anthropic (Lawsuits galore over copyright); 
• Ed Bastian, CEO, Delta Air Lines (probably good since they sued an AI company for a data breach); 
• Rumman Chowdhury, Ph.D., CEO, Humane Intelligence (The “AI Pin” company); 
• Alexandra Reeve Givens, President and CEO, Center for Democracy and Technology (good pick, looks like)
• Bruce Harrell, Mayor of Seattle, Washington; Chair, Technology and Innovation Committee, United States Conference of Mayors; (This is decidedly grey).
• Damon Hewitt, President and Executive Director, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; (good pick)
• Vicki Hollub, President and CEO, Occidental Petroleum; (drill baby drill?)
• Jensen Huang, President and CEO, NVIDIA; 
• Arvind Krishna, Chairman and CEO, IBM; 
• Fei-Fei Li, Ph.D., Co-Director, Stanford Human-centered Artificial Intelligence Institute;  
• Wes Moore, Governor of Maryland; 
• Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft (Lawsuit, copyright); 
• Shantanu Narayen, Chair and CEO, Adobe; 
• Sundar Pichai, CEO, Alphabet; (Class action lawsuit for data scraping) 
• Arati Prabhakar, Ph.D., Assistant to the President for Science and Technology; Director, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; 
• Chuck Robbins, Chair and CEO, Cisco; Chair, Business Roundtable; 
• Adam Selipsky, CEO, Amazon Web Services (allegedly ignored copyright because everyone else was doing it); 
• Dr. Lisa Su, Chair and CEO, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD); 
• Nicol Turner Lee, Ph.D., Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution;  (there’s some funding controversies here that run counter to national security)
• Kathy Warden, Chair, CEO and President, Northrop Grumman; and 
• Maya Wiley, President and CEO, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. 

There’s some dubious companies involved. The argument can be made – and it probably will – that the companies are a part of national infrastructure, but is it national infrastructure that controls the United States, or is it the other way around?

I don’t know that these picks are good or bad. I will say that there are some that, at least in the eyes of others, been irresponsible. That would fall under Demonstrated Unreliability.