OpenAI hires ex-White House AI policy chief Thomas Lind to lead cyber and strategic risk
kimmonismus · x · 2026-10-03
According to The Information, OpenAI hired Thomas Lind this week to lead cyber and strategic risk on its national security team. Lind previously led AI policy at the Office of the National Cyber Director, which helped develop the government's voluntary framework for reviewing advanced AI models before public release.
The move fits OpenAI's recent hiring pattern: it also brought on Dean Ball, who helped draft the Trump administration's AI Action Plan, and the national security team is led by Sasha Baker, a former senior Biden Pentagon official. The author argues OpenAI is assembling a team with direct Washington experience to avoid the kind of friction Anthropic has had with the US government.
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