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Dean W. Ball
ROLE HEAD OF STRATEGIC FUTURES, OPENAIMENTIONS 1LAST SEEN JULY 21, 2026
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mention·StrictlyVC·JULY 21, 2026
“OpenAI's head of strategic futures, Dean W. Ball, went so far as to argue that the US government should find a pretext to create regulatory fear, uncertainty, and distrust around the new models, since open-weight models must necessarily deter capital spending by the frontier labs.”
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