OpenAI's policy chief says frontier lab insiders are worried about AI, too
Dean Ball, hired in July to shape frontier policy, says he will keep issuing candid warnings even when they complicate OpenAI's message.
By Ryan Merket · Published · Updated
Primary source: X
Why it matters
OpenAI has given a senior policy official room to voice fears its marketing cannot smooth over. His warnings will also test whether the lab acts on concerns raised from inside its own leadership.
Dean W. Ball (@deanwball), OpenAI's head of strategic futures, said on September 1st that public concern about artificial intelligence is often justified and that his job does not require him to make the technology feel safe.
"The public, very often, is right to be concerned. I am concerned," Ball wrote on X. He added that most of the people he knows at frontier AI labs share concerns about where the technology is heading.…