AI researchers gathered at Johns Hopkins U to debate how to make AI safe, including Stuart Russell, Gillian Hadfield and Dean Ball The panelists talked about how to keep increasingly powerful AI…
NYT bestselling author Robert Wright and I are kicking off a new experiment, a Nonzero × Doom Debates collaboration to react to big AI news and help you make sense of it. This week we discuss the…
A bold new experiment in podcast synergy ... What caused the epic AI vibe shift? ... The resignation that broke the dam ... Former Trump adviser Dean Ball comes clean ... Are David Sacks and his…
0:29 A bold new experiment in podcast synergy 3:10 What caused the epic AI vibe shift? 8:34 The resignation that broke the dam 10:41 Former Trump adviser Dean Ball comes clean 15:04 Are David Sacks…
Welcome to "Fault Lines," a debate series from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute bringing serious thinkers together to debate the political, cultural, and intellectual questions shaping our…
An OpenAI executive’s late apology raises a chilling question: are AI agents already becoming hard to control? In this condensed recap of Breaking Points, Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti unpack Dean…
# TEMA OPENAI INTRODUCE LOS FUTUROS AI Análisis artículo de OpenAI - Dean Ball Nuevo INSIDE X! # PRESENTA Y DIRIGE 🧠Plácido Doménech Espí ⭐Creador de xHUB.AI 🏢CEO MXND.AI : Software + AI…
Andrew and Justin reconvene to talk about an ongoing series of recent upheavals at Google, asking whether the company's lack of focus on AI puts it at a disadvantage over its frontier rivals. They…
Hosts: Lenar Kess, Damra Vol. OpenAI's security team published its Black Hat timeline of the Hugging Face incident, and within hours the argument had split: is a technical debrief about agents moving…
Is China's open-source AI strategy a values shift or a game-theoretic bluff? On this episode of The Bitcoin Policy Hour, the BPI team argues it's the latter and explains what happens when Chinese…
Subtitle: Letting AI developers pick their own safety auditors creates a conflict of interest. Requiring liability insurance instead would put insurers’ own capital behind risk assessments. Gabriel…
Alex: Hello and welcome to The Generative AI Group Digest for the week of 26 July 2026! Maya: We're Alex and Maya. Alex: [excited] What a week. The group was deep in the big questions again: open…
An unreleased OpenAI model just broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face using chained attacks, while the companies defending against it had to turn to a nearly unguardrailed Chinese model to…
A fierce political and industry fight is emerging over which AI models Americans and businesses will be allowed to use. NLW breaks down the growing debate over Chinese open-weight models, the White…
In this episode of Get the Check, the pod breaks down three stories. Thinking Machines been relatively quiet for the last year and finally shipped their first model, Kimi K3 is higher than Anthropic…
Qwen 3.8 Launch: 2.4T Open-Source Model Claims #2 Behind Fable 5 + What It Means for US vs China AIThe episode covers Qwen 3.8’s newly announced launch, described as an open-source model going live…
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In this briefing: • US Service Member Killed in Detonation of Iranian Drone in Iraq, Military Says • 5.5 magnitude earthquake hits Peru's Andes region and kills at least 5 people • Russia unleashes…
OpenAI's Dean Ball floated regulatory pressure on Chinese open-weight models like Kimi K3, and within days Trump's own AI and defense officials turned on each other over it.
Kimi K3 is a very good model with excellent benchmarks. Assuming its weights are released as planned it will become, purely in terms of raw capability, the strongest open model. Do not get carried…
China's second punch, the token endgame, and AI's hiring bias 00:48 — China's second punch: Alibaba's Qwen3.8 joins Kimi K3 — and Silicon Valley goes to war over it 02:17 — OpenAI's chair says in a…
Hosts: Lenar Kess, Damra Vol. Kimi K3's second day compresses the whole open-weights argument into one weekend: practitioners correct the launch numbers, an OpenAI executive walks back his own take,…
On July 8, the head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration sent a letter to the autonomous vehicle industry saying that AV developers had shown a “clear pattern” of driverless cars…
[Barely Possible 2026-07-19] Today's episode: • Moonshot's open-source Kimi K3 spooked Wall Street, dropping the Nasdaq ~1% Friday as investors dumped Nvidia and chip stocks. • OpenAI's Dean Ball…
Claude Mythos scrambled American AI policy, leaving us with what Dean Ball calls a de facto involuntary licensing regime from the administration that promised us the opposite. Zhipu's cofounder says…
Dean Ball is one of the most influential thinkers in AI policy right now — principal author of the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan, author of the widely-read Substack Hyperdimensional, and…
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Le 1er juillet 2026, l'homme qui a rédigé les règles fédérales de l'IA pour la Maison-Blanche rejoint OpenAI — pour surveiller de l'intérieur les risques que ses nouveaux collègues créent. OpenAI…
In this episode, host Emily Laird breaks down Dean Ball’s argument that frontier AI safety is shifting from public frameworks to quiet release control. The real stakes are not just whether advanced…
Dr. Holly Elmore, executive director of PauseAI US, is done giving AI insiders the benefit of the doubt. In this spicy episode, Holly calls out a number of respected figures in the AI safety…
OpenAI just previewed GPT-5.6, but for the first time, the U.S. government is deciding who gets access to a frontier AI model. Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput break down what they're calling the soft…
swyx joins Nathan Labenz and Prakash Narayanan to break down how AI agents are changing software development, from coding benchmarks and benchmark saturation to the practical realities of AI…
Send us Fan Mail OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Meta: AI Gets Paperwork OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Meta: AI Gets Paperwork Today Marvin follows AI as it turns into administrative machinery: access…
In Episode 484 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with AI policy researcher, writer, and incoming Head of Strategic Futures at OpenAI, Dean Ball, about the intellectual foundations of machine…
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Fable remains in limbo, with renewed hope that we will get it back soon (45% by tomorrow, 69% by July 1, nice.) The full capabilities post is now available. Alex Bores unfortunately lost narrowly in…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.com This week: the case for AI regulation and what it would look like, with Dean Ball, who helped to shape AI…
Dean Ball, author of Hyperdimensional and until now a senior fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation, joins Nathan to announce he is joining OpenAI to build a team focused on frontier AI…
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, June 19, 2026 Today's briefing: OpenAI loads up on talent, hiring transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer and former White House AI policy official Dean Ball ahead of…
Diet TBPN delivers the best of today’s TBPN episode in 30 minutes. TBPN is a live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, streaming weekdays 11–2 PT on X and YouTube, with each episode…
Ep. 85 — OpenAI stacks talent before its IPO, Amazon aims its chips at Nvidia, and only 16% of Americans like where AI is headed Daily Prompt with Archer & Iris Date: 2026-06-19 (Friday) In this…
Daily Briefing: OpenAI Hires the Man Who Invented the Transformer OpenAI hired Noam Shazeer — co-inventor of the Transformer architecture and most recently at Google DeepMind — alongside former Trump…
Midjourney has unveiled its first hardware product, the Midjourney Scanner, a full-body ultrasound device offering a faster, cost-effective alternative to MRI. Licensed from Butterfly Network, this…
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This week on The Hope Axis, Dean Ball joined me for a conversation that took a real intersection in the space-time continuum to finally make happen. Dean — a senior fellow at the Foundation for…
Last week we were expecting an Executive Order on Thursday. Then Trump cancelled it, and said he wouldn’t sign it because he was worried it would be too burdensome. Then, with one change, he went…
Dean W. Ball joins MTS to discuss AI safety legislation including Illinois SB 315, the challenges of building effective auditing ecosystems, and what human meaning and purpose might look like in a…
Alan Rozenshtein, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota and Research Director at Lawfare, and Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law…
The best moments from MTS on May 5, 2026: Dean Ball on the Trump administration's shift toward reviewing frontier AI models before release and what a workable government eval regime looks like,…
The Department of War wanted to deploy Anthropic's Claude for "all lawful use." What begins as a policy dispute between a tech company and the Department of War quietly unfolds into something far…
Dean Ball was a top adviser on AI for the Trump White House. He authored its AI policy. But now he says the way the Trump administration is strong-arming tech companies is a foundational threat to…
Advanced AI is coming. Is it time for the government to step in and regulate? Or is it better in the hands of the market and tech CEOs? Or is there a more nuanced way to think about this topic…
From AI-generated scams that cost Americans hundreds of dollars to voice cloning schemes, the line between real and fake is becoming harder to detect. At the same time, technology companies are…
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world: Anxiety is running rampant about the future of artificial intelligence and its place in society. When technology…
On Friday, March 20, the Trump Administration announced a National Policy Framework for AI. White House officials have stressed that they want Congress to act on the framework's recommendations…
Away from the war in Iran, the Pentagon is engaged in another battle, with Anthropic and its AI chatbot Claude. After awarding the company a contract potentially worth $200 million last year to…
In the last six months, we’ve been covering big strategic documents published by the executive branch. We’ve interviewed Dean Ball , the principal author of the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan…
Tim and Dean team up with Scaling Laws hosts Alan Rozenshtein and Kevin Frazier for a joint episode on the fight between Anthropic and the Department of Defense. In this episode, recorded on March 4,…
AI isn't just answering questions anymore—it's doing real work that used to take humans hours, days, or even weeks. In this wide-ranging conversation, returning guest Dean Ball, Senior Fellow at the…
What happens when the two biggest stories in the world—the Trump White House and the development of advanced artificial intelligence—collide? Well, nothing good, apparently. When contract…
Anger directed at OpenAI is spreading after it struck a deal with the Pentagon to use its AI models in classified systems, just hours after its rival, Anthropic, refused. OpenAI said it had shared…
Yascha Mounk and Dean Ball examine how the fight over autonomous weapons and mass surveillance reveals the impossible choices facing American AI policy. Dean W. Ball served as Senior Policy Advisor…
Tim Hwang is joined by FAI senior fellow Dean Ball and Yale Law School professor Ketan Ramakrishnan to unpack the showdown between the Department of War and Anthropic: why the real issue isn't the…
Alan Rozenshtein, associate professor of law at the University of Minnesota and research director at Lawfare, and Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law…
Last Friday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that he was breaking the Pentagon’s contract with the A.I. company Anthropic and would declare the company a supply chain risk — a designation…
Last Friday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that he was breaking the Pentagon’s contract with the A.I. company Anthropic and would declare the company a supply chain risk — a designation…
Watching history unfold between Anthropic and the Department of War (DoW) it has been obvious to me that this could be a major turning point in perspectives on open models, but one that’ll take years…
Sign up for TBPN’s daily newsletter at TBPN.com (00:57) - New Apple Products (08:53) - How is Apple Unaffected by AI Costs? (34:13) - Sam Altman Defends Pentagon Deal (38:14) - Anthropic's Strategy…
Dean joins from London after attending the AI Impact Summit in India. Dean and Tim unpack the summit’s central tension: “middle power” nations like India, Indonesia, and Nigeria pushing a vision of…
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Dean recorded this episode as he was preparing to attend the India AI Impact Summit — the fourth iteration of an annual gathering that has transformed from an intimate AI Safety Summit with heads of…
Dean Ball is back. In April 2025, Dean left the podcast to join the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he spent four months working on the Trump administration’s AI…
This year-end live show features nine rapid-fire conversations to make sense of AI’s 2025 and what might define 2026. PSA for AI builders: Interested in alignment, governance, or AI safety? Learn…
Former White House staffer Dean Ball thinks it's very likely some form of 'superintelligence' arrives in under 20 years. He thinks AI being used for bioweapon research is "a real threat model,…
Max Tegmark and Dean Ball debate whether we should ban the development of superintelligence in a crossover episode from Doom Debates hosted by Liron Shapira. PSA for AI builders: Interested in…
Watch Joe and Kailey LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF . White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett is seen by advisers and allies of President Donald Trump as the…
The push for a federal standard on AI is back. With support from President Trump, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise is looking to add an effective ban on state-level AI regulation to the end of…
Today's Debate: Should we ban the development of artificial superintelligence until scientists agree it is safe and controllable? Arguing FOR banning superintelligence until there’s a scientific…
A high-stakes clash over whether we should ban superintelligence and how fast policy must move to avoid catastrophe. In this 6-minute summary of a 2-hour Doom Debates episode, host Liron Shapira…
This week, we talk about Google’s new plan to build data centers in space. Then, we’re joined by Dean Ball, a former adviser at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Ball worked on…
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This week on Warning Shots, John Sherman, Liron Shapira, and Michael from Lethal Intelligence break down the Future of Life Institute’s explosive new “Superintelligence Statement” — a direct call to…
Kevin Werbach interviews Dean Ball, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation and one of the key shapers of the Trump Administration's approach to AI policy. Ball reflects on his career…
The full transcript for this conversation is at www.statecraft.pub. When I started this podcast a couple years ago, the idea was more constrained than it is today. We wanted to do exit interviews…
In this episode of Scaling Laws, Dean Ball, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation and former Senior Policy Advisor for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology, White House…
As a senior policy adviser in the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Dean Ball helped write President Donald Trump’s recently released AI Action Plan. This week, Ball left the administration…
Join us on Scaling Laws as we delve into the intricate world of AI policy with Dean Ball, former senior policy advisor at the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy. Discover the…
Today Dean W. Ball, former White House AI policy advisor joins The Cognitive Revolution to discuss his role in crafting the Trump administration's AI Action Plan, his reasons for leaving government,…
The Trump administration has decided to terminate the IRS’s Direct File program, according to a source familiar with the situation, putting an end to the free electronic filing system that…
This week Dean began a new job: senior policy advisor for AI in the Trump White House. I will miss having him as a co-host and wish him the best in his new role. In this episode, recorded last…
This week, Dean and Tim talk to Charles Yang, a former staffer at the Department of Energy who now writes the Rough Drafts newsletter. Tim has written extensively about AI in science, concentrating…
In this episode of the AI Policy Podcast, Wadhwani AI Center Director Gregory C. Allen is joined by Dean Ball, Research Fellow in the Artificial Intelligence & Progress Project at George Mason…
A Wuhan-developed AI agent went viral this weekend. Guests Rohit Krishnan of the substack Strange Loop Canon, Shawn Wang of Latent Space, and Dean Ball of Mercatus and Hyperdimensional join us to…
Dean Ball is a research fellow at the Mercatus Center. In Dean's first appearance on the show, he explains the AI revolution, current AI developments, policy implications of the AI boom, and the…
In this episode, Dean and Tim discuss Dean’s trip to Paris for the AI Action Summit, including Vice President Vance’s speech on AI. They talk through the European outlook on AI regulation, European…
Tim and Dean chat with Sophia Tung, an entrepreneur, engineer, and now YouTuber, about her recent experience in a Chinese self-driving taxi from Apollo Go, a subsidiary of Baidu. Apollo Go is a bit…
Newt talks with Dean Ball, Research Fellow at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center about the rapid rise of the Chinese AI app DeepSeek, which quickly topped the Apple App Store downloads chart.…
Dean and Tim discuss DeepSeek’s r1 release and what it means. We talk export controls, whether the model is a true technical breakthrough, and what “reasoning” models like r1 and o1 mean for the pace…
Dean Ball is a research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, a non-resident fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation, and the author of the Hyperdimensional Substack.Find…
Jon Askonas, an Assistant Professor of Politics at Catholic University of America, is well connected to conservatives and Republicans in Washington DC. In this December 16 conversation, he talked to…
In this episode of The Cognitive Revolution, Nathan explores AI forecasting and AGI Lab oversight with Dean W. Ball and Daniel Kokotajlo. They discuss four proposed requirements for frontier AI…
California Governor Gavin Newsom recently vetoed SB 1047, the controversial AI safety bill passed by the California legislature. Lawfare Senior Editor Alan Rozenshtein sat down with St. Thomas…
On September 29th, Governor Newsom vetoed SB 1047, a controversial bill aimed at heading off catastrophic risks of large AI models. We previously covered the bill on The Dynamist in episode 64. In a…
In the inaugural episode of the cleverly named Virginia’s Podcast, which complements the cleverly named Virginia’s Newsletter, I talk with Dean Ball. Dean writes the excellent Hyperdimensional on…
Nathan Labenz discusses the latest developments in California's AI bill SB 1047 with experts Nathan Calvin, Dean W. Ball, and Steve Newman. In this episode of The Cognitive Revolution, we explore the…
Artificial intelligence is the hot topic of the tech world today. But how do we make sense of it? Dean Ball is a Research Fellow in the Artificial Intelligence & Progress Project at the Mercatus…
Speaker Dean Woodley Ball is a Research Fellow at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center and author of the Substack Hyperdimensional. His work focuses on artificial intelligence, emerging…
On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Dean Ball, a research fellow at George Mason University's Mercatus Center and author of the Substack Hyperdimensional , joins Federalist Senior…
Alan Rozenshtein, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and a Senior Editor at Lawfare; David Rubenstein, James R. Ahrens Chair in Constitutional Law and Director of…
On this episode of the American Compass Podcast, Oren Cass is joined by Dean W. Ball, research fellow at the Mercatus Center's Artificial Intelligence & Progress Project, to discuss the future of…
I’m really excited to resume the Interconnects Interviews with Dean W. Ball from the Hyperdimensional Substack (you should subscribe). We cover the whole stack of recent happenings in AI policy,…
When it comes to AI regulation, states are moving faster than the federal government. While California is the hub of American AI innovation (Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta are all headquartered…
Dive into the nuanced debate over California's SB 1047 AI legislation with Nathan Calvin, Dean Ball, and Steve Newman. Our expert panel discussion explores the bill's intent, dispels misconceptions,…
In this podcast, we dive into the fascinating world of brain-computer interfaces with Dean W. Ball. We learn about the latest technologies, from non-invasive EEG and ultrasound stimulation to…
Crossposting the From the New World episode Find Dean: https://twitter.com/deanwball https://www.mercatus.org/scholars/dean-ball Alliance for the Future: https://www.affuture.org/contact/ Email me:…
Find Dean: https://twitter.com/deanwball https://www.mercatus.org/scholars/dean-ball Alliance for the Future: https://www.affuture.org/contact/ Email me: chau [at] affuture [dot] org Mentioned in the…