# Dean W. Ball

Markdown copy of https://realalpha.app/builders/dean-w-ball/ on Real Alpha, the best minutes from long interviews with the people building AI. Cite and link the page, not this copy.

Real Alpha has cut 2 moments of Dean W. Ball (Head of Strategic Futures, OpenAI) talking, from an interview on TBPN published Oct 31, 2025.

- Role: Head of Strategic Futures, OpenAI
- About: Primary author of the Trump administration's AI Action Plan, now Head of Strategic Futures at OpenAI.
- Company: [OpenAI](https://realalpha.app/companies/#openai)
- On X: https://x.com/deanwball

## What Dean W. Ball said

- [A superintelligence ban lacks a workable definition and reach](https://realalpha.app/s/a-superintelligence-ban-lacks-a-workable-definition-and/)
  TBPN · Oct 31, 2025 · 5 min
  > “you need a global treaty to ban superintelligence. That's what they're asking for.” — Dean W. Ball · [1:48:06](https://realalpha.app/v/m2mWKU0srfY/?t=6486)
- [Dean thinks AI drives roughly 40% of GDP growth](https://realalpha.app/s/dean-thinks-ai-drives-roughly-40-of-gdp-growth/)
  TBPN · Oct 31, 2025 · 4 min
  > “I think it's probably at least like 25 to 50% of of growth right now.” — Dean W. Ball · [2:03:01](https://realalpha.app/v/m2mWKU0srfY/?t=7381)

## The episode

- [Marc Andreessen & Ilya Sutskever Host TBPN](https://realalpha.app/v/m2mWKU0srfY/) · TBPN · Oct 31, 2025