> "Will Hurd, an OpenAI board member, was a former CIA clandestine officer for nearly nine years. He was a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Int

> "Will Hurd, an OpenAI board member, was a former CIA clandestine officer for nearly nine years. He was a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence member during his tenure as a U.S. Rep. Mr. Hurd is also a member of the board of trustees of In-Q-Tel, the primary external investment arm of the CIA and the broader US Intelligence Community." Last month someone made a throwaway to say this in a reply to something I wrote. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35366484 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35366484 My conspiracy theory was that the $10B from Microsoft is actually from the government/military/intelligence through its dark external investment arms as part of the Sydney Project, the 21st century's Manhattan Project for superhuman machine cognition.