What Dean W. Ball thinks about censorship
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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2 dated positions, 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 wordsBut a society that does not have anonymous speech does not really have genuine freedom of expression, and we should embed this principle into any digital identification system we attempt.
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Their wordsSo many of the people who think about the governance of superintelligence, myself included, avoided that unpleasantness and bowed to the social pressure to self-censor.