Dean Ball
Dean Ball is a senior fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation and author of the AI-focused newsletter Hyperdimensional. He previously served as Senior Policy Advisor for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he was the primary staff drafter of America's AI Action Plan. He is best known for his writing and policy work on artificial intelligence governance, emerging technology, and the future of regulation, and currently co-teaches a colloquium on frontier AI governance at Yale Law School.
“OpenAI policy leader Dean Ball...said the quiet part out loud when he wrote that he expected (wanted?) the government not to ban Chinese models but to impose 'large amounts of regulatory risk' on anyone using them by directing 'every agency to issue soft law that creates FUD.'”
Source→“I'm going to steal this from Dean Ball of Sequoia who had a fantastic post... He wrote this yesterday. I think the situation which is bad today is that some of these models from other countries can train off American models whereas if you are an American open-weight model it may be really confusing or challenging on whether you can distill off of other American models.”
Source→“Dean Ball, Policy/communications director at OpenAI (started two weeks before this episode). Previously at the Trump administration on AI policy and the Hoover Institution.”
Source→“He's in a senior role at OpenAI... he used the word 'AI communism' and it was very over-exaggerated. And then secondly, when you start hinting about significant regulatory changes that will massively benefit you, you got to expect that everyone's going to say, dude, of course you're going to say that.”
Source→“Defense Under Secretary Emil Michael attacked Ball in a post yesterday on X, calling him the 'supreme village idiot' of AI.”
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