Former Trump AI adviser Dean Ball is joining OpenAI to lead a new team called Strategic Futures, focused on frontier AI policy and internal governance (Ashley Gold/Axios)
OpenAI hired Dean Ball to lead Strategic Futures, a new team focused on frontier AI policy and internal governance.
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<p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260618/p34#a260618p34" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Ashley Gold / <a href="https://www.axios.com/">Axios</a>:<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/06/18/dean-ball-openai">Former Trump AI adviser Dean Ball is joining OpenAI to lead a new team called Strategic Futures, focused on frontier AI policy and internal governance</a></b></span> — Dean Ball, who helped shape the Trump administration's early policies on AI, is heading to OpenAI, he told Axios exclusively.</p>
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