Weeks ago, three OpenAI higher-ups became the butt of an embarrassing joke pulled by a duo of Russian pranksters, a gaffe with alarming implications for a company jockeying for military contracts. According to the Intercept, a trio of national security and strategic initiative leaders at OpenAI — Sasha Baker, Caroline Zier, and Ben Crampton — took a video call with the Russian comedians who go by the monikers Vovan and Lexus (real names Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kuznetsov and Aleksei Vladimirovich Stolyarov) who were claiming they were top Ukrainian government officials. The call…
