And then also at a high-level I feel like there was a rhetorical trick going on in the event messaging where I feel like the protest is organized around some “military bad because weapons bad” affect, without recognizing that the kind of relationship that OpenAI seems to have with the military seems pretty non-central for that kind of relationship (working on cybersecurity stuff, which I think by most people’s lights is quite different).
This was not at all intentional, although we were concerned about a future where there was more engagement with the military including with weapons, so I can see someone thinking we were saying they were working with weapons now if they weren’t paying close attention. Working on cybersecurity today is a foot in the door for more involvement with the military in the future, so I don’t think it’s so wrong to fear their involvement today because you don’t want AI weapons.
This was not at all intentional, although we were concerned about a future where there was more engagement with the military including with weapons, so I can see someone thinking we were saying they were working with weapons now if they weren’t paying close attention. Working on cybersecurity today is a foot in the door for more involvement with the military in the future, so I don’t think it’s so wrong to fear their involvement today because you don’t want AI weapons.