What Dean W. Ball thinks about OpenAI
Head of strategic futures at OpenAI, writing in his own name. Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on emerging technology and the future of governance.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Dean W. Ball has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsIn this case, however, the agents did not copy their weights, attempt to procure replacement compute, or take other steps that would be rational to take if their objective was to survive shutdown. So while the agents in the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident were rogue, they were not truly sovereign.