What Dean W. Ball thinks about open source
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 wordsI am telling you this is inevitable, which means I am also saying that “banning open source,” or for that matter any other regulation, will not solve the problem. Given the inevitability of this outcome, I think it is in fact plausible to argue that we should want more open-weight models to maximally empower our self-defense.