Dean W. Ball
Dean W. Ball is the Head of Strategic Futures at OpenAI, a role he assumed in July 2026 leading a team that reports to Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon and focuses on frontier AI policy and internal governance. He previously served as a senior policy adviser for AI and Emerging Technology at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy during the Trump administration. He is also the author of the newsletter Hyperdimensional and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation, and has a forthcoming book on AI policy with Penguin Press.
“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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