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." Read Also: AI Demand Drives $715 Million Canada Pension Fund Bet On India Data Center Ball helped draft the White House's AI Action Plan, which was released last summer and departed the administration shortly after it came out.
