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Morning Edition · Saturday, June 20, 2026
Former White House Adviser Dean Ball to Lead an OpenAI Policy Unit
Ball says he will join OpenAI in early July to head Strategic Futures, a new division focused on AI policy.
The AI policy analyst Dean Ball wrote on his personal blog that he will join OpenAI in early July to lead a new division called Strategic Futures, which will handle AI policy questions, the AI ML Big Data channel reported. Ball is a former…
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