He's 72 years old, I'm sure he has the best brains and everyone's best interests in mind. This is exactly what I want to see. I'm sure he will have very good opinions on technology and it's implications.

I had conversations with Ben a few years ago about his economics research (incidentally related to some research I was doing at the time). I wouldn't have guessed he was close to 70. He's a sharp guy.

(I also think his economics research is excellent, and the comments elsewhere about his track record aren't particularly fair.)

Hires like these are made for their brand rather than expertise. His job will be to attend galas, schmooze with investors and give legitimacy to the operation. The company will hire others to do the real work.

Bjarne Stroustrup is 75 years old. I don't think that age per se tells us much.

He's just old enough to be part of congress. Give him another decade and he'll be ready to run for president.

This sounds like age discrimination.

Yeah, this seems like reputation renting similar to Larry Summers being put on the board of OpenAI, which turned out, um...very well I guess. For different reasons of course.

I guess it's better than him joining OpenAI, where I could see Altman being more "creative" with the books than Amodei. But I just don't Bernanke pushing back or blowing any whistles when things start smelling funny.

I assume this is sarcasm?