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OpenAI Strategist Dean Ball Argues Frontier AI Labs Must Counterbalance State Power

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Dean Ball joined OpenAI in early July as head of a new Strategic Futures team. His mandate covers catastrophic risk, recursive self-improvement, labor market effects and the delicate ties between frontier labs, the U.S. government and broader society. The hire came weeks after he published a personal essay outlining his long-held view that these organizations represent something unprecedented. “The frontier lab is a new kind of institution under…

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In a grey afternoon in July, Dean Ball examines the political theory section of the City Lights bookstore in San Francisco. It is the end of his second day at OpenAI and has just left the orientation session for new employees. He wears a cashmere zipped sweatshirt and a cloth bag from the company. He takes a copy of Friedrich Hayek's "The Pure Theory of Capital" out of the bookcase, comments on how rare it is to find it in a bookshop and browses…

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