OpenAI has hired former White House artificial intelligence adviser Dean Ball, adding a policy-focused hire in a new team buildout.
Ball will join OpenAI on July 6 as a leader of a new unit called Strategic Futures, he announced in a blog post on Substack. Ball will report to Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon. The team will be "charged with shaping frontier AI policy, which is to say matters pertaining to: catastrophic risk, recursive self-improvement, labor market impact, and the relationship between the frontier labs, governments (particularly the U.S. Federal Government), and society.”
Ball noted that "its work will cover both public-facing policy (for example, proposals for legislation) and internal governance within the lab, working in close collaboration with members of the technical staff, the Preparedness team, the legal team, policy staff from the National Security and Global Affairs teams, and the executive leadership of the company."
Ball helped draft the White House's AI Action Plan, which was released last summer and departed the administration shortly after it came out. He then joined the Foundation for American Innovation, where he is a senior fellow and will remain in his role while at OpenAI.
In March, Ball was named a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a right-leaning think tank whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies.
Before entering government, Ball worked at George Mason University's Mercatus Center and held a program manager role at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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