Dean Ball

So I joined in April of 2025.

And basically, you know, I was a senior policy advisor for artificial intelligence and emerging technology at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

So those are very... White House staff roles are very capacious.

And the...

Sort of day-to-day changes radically depending on what's going on.

And so I did quite a bit of stuff.

But the main thrust of my work was to play a role in the drafting of the administration's AI action plan and some of the other...

policy moves that were attached to the action plan, such as the executive orders that the president signed when he announced the action plan.

So those were the things I worked on.

I worked on them, of course, with many other people.

So a lot of what I did was shepherding these documents through the interagency approval processes that these kinds of things must go through.

And then I left in August of 2025.

And principally, I left because I feel like my primary value add

is as an independent sort of writer, you know, sort of thinker.

And the action plan had been, you know, completed at that point.

It was sort of rolling downhill in the sense that the bureaucracy liked it.

The bureaucracy was excited about adopting, you know, about implementing it.

And so I didn't feel like this, I felt like the sales and communications job was largely done.

And I said, okay, well, you know, my value add is probably doing other things now.

The Biden administration, I would say, took a far more, I would say, an ominous approach from a regulatory perspective, right?