I asked a version of “Why not buy people like Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nick Bostrom, or Stuart Russell a seat on OpenAI’s board?” on Open Phil’s blog & Holden replied:
″...we did discuss different possibilities for who would take the seat, and considered the possibility of someone outside Open Phil, but I’m going to decline to go into detail on how we ultimately made the call. I will note that I’ve been looping in other AI safety folks (such as those you mention) pretty heavily as I’ve thought through my goals for this partnership, and I recognize that there are often arguments for deferring to their judgment on particular questions.”
I asked a version of “Why not buy people like Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nick Bostrom, or Stuart Russell a seat on OpenAI’s board?” on Open Phil’s blog & Holden replied:
″...we did discuss different possibilities for who would take the seat, and considered the possibility of someone outside Open Phil, but I’m going to decline to go into detail on how we ultimately made the call. I will note that I’ve been looping in other AI safety folks (such as those you mention) pretty heavily as I’ve thought through my goals for this partnership, and I recognize that there are often arguments for deferring to their judgment on particular questions.”
http://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/march-2017-open-thread#comments