Dean Ball, on Joining OpenAI: New Power Centers, Frontier AI Policy, & Main Character Energy

Hello, and welcome back to The Cognitive Revolution. My guest today is Dean Ball, who, as you probably already know, recently announced that he'll soon be joining OpenAI to build and lead a new team called Strategic Futures, with a mandate to help OpenAI's senior leaders shape frontier AI policy.

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1. 01My guest today is Dean Ball, who, as you probably already know, recently announced that he'll soon be joining OpenAI to build and lead a new team called Strategic Futures, with a m
2. 02He also describes how he understands his duty to OpenAI's mission of ensuring that AI benefits all humanity, how his team will relate to OpenAI's existing government affairs team,
3. 03Along the way, we also get his takes on the corrigibility versus character debate, what happened between OpenAI and Alex Boris, the equity-sharing talk we've recently heard from bo