Dean Ball's OpenAI job: "AGI-pilling" the global affairs team
ShakeelHashim · x · 2026-11-04
NYMag's AI Power List reports that Dean Ball, now at OpenAI, reports to chief strategy officer Jason Kwon and is charged with "shaping frontier AI policy." Per one of his reports, his team's task is "AGI pilling" OpenAI's global-affairs team—convincing them of the transformative power of AI to come—which could shape whether AI gets regulated. The piece also reveals a previously unreported meeting where Alex Bores, Sneha Revanur and others tried to convince Hillary Clinton to back the RAISE Act.
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