No, he lied to other board members, multiple times.
As for "holding back the organization", if we're talking about existential risk, I want them to be held back. These people have no business being stewards of any technology that might be an existential risk.
Boards serve a vital fiduciary duty to ensure good corporate governance.
They do not exist to hold back the organisation and are not there to be outsmarted.
How could you say this with a straight face.
Can I have some of what you're on? It sounds like fun. Seriously, nobody in the entire world has been adversely affected by the widespread adoption of LLMs?
There has been industrial scale copyright infringement.
You can argue it's for the greater good but to say that no one was hurt is a lie.