AI policy expert Dean Ball leaves Trump administration role to join OpenAI
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Ashley Gold
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Dean Ball, who helped shape the Trump administration's early AI policies, is joining OpenAI to lead a new team called Strategic Futures. He will focus on shaping OpenAI's frontier AI policy and internal governance, bringing government expertise to the AI company as it navigates Washington.
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Dean Ball, who helped shape the Trump administration's early policies on AI, is heading to OpenAI, he told Axios exclusively.
Ball is going to lead a new team at the frontier lab called Strategic Futures, where he said he will be focused on shaping OpenAI's frontier AI policy and internal governance.
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