Dean Ball joins OpenAI as Head of Strategic Futures to shape frontier AI policy

Dean Ball will join OpenAI on July 6 as Head of Strategic Futures, a new small team reporting to Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon that will shape frontier AI policy on catastrophic risk, recursive self-improvement, labor market impact, and government relations.

Ball says he will keep writing independently at Hyperdimensional, with no OpenAI preapproval or editorial discretion over his work.