OpenAI’s Strategic Futures Team

OpenAI’s Strategic Futures team, led by Dean Ball and reporting to Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon, examines how increasingly capable AI could affect governance, institutions, and society.

Through its AI Futures platform, the team plans to share research in formats including papers, podcasts, videos, and forecasting models. Its stated ideas include individual autonomy, responsibility for misuse, and narrowly scoped collective action. The team’s role also raises questions about how research and policy influence operate inside a company developing frontier AI, and how its leadership can maintain independence and public credibility.