OpenAI Turns to Ex-Army Secretary for Cybersecurity Counsel

OpenAI has hired former Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to help its cybersecurity efforts. Driscoll is joining the artificial intelligence (AI) startup as its “Senior Counselor for National Security Modernization,” OpenAI announced Tuesday (Nov. 3). “AI should give people more power over their lives and people should have a say in how it’s developed,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in the announcement. “The U.S. has an extraordinary opportunity to work with other countries to spread the adoption of democratic AI and I’m excited to welcome Dan Driscoll to OpenAI to strengthen American leadership and help us do that.” In this newly-created position, Driscoll will work with OpenAI teams and government, industry and academic leaders to promote “practical modernization initiatives that support the buildout of democratic AI,” the announcement said.