Selections from Hyperdimensional
Here’s What I Think We Should Do
The Political Economy of AI Regulation
Compute Thresholds are Ineffective
Essays & Articles
Life, Liberty, and Superintelligence, Arena Magazine, Winter 2025
How California Turned on its Own Citizens, Pirate Wires, January 24, 2025
The Coming Year of AI Regulation in the States, Tech Policy Press, January 7, 2025
America is Sleepwalking into a Permanent DEI Bureaucracy that Regulates AI, Pirate Wires, November 11, 2024
The Coming AI Tsunami, Arena Magazine, Fall 2024
Tech Innovation Dies in Darkness, Discourse Magazine, September 5, 2024
The Forces Behind Scott Wiener’s Steadfast Support of SB 1047, Pirate Wires, August 21, 2024
The Era of Predictive AI is Almost Over, The New Atlantis, Summer 2024
Move Fast and Make Things, American Compass, June 18, 2024
Congress Should Preempt State AI Safety Legislation (with Alan Z. Rozenshtein), Lawfare, June 17, 2024
TikTok Tug of War, Tech Policy Press, May 2, 2024
How a National Digital ID System Could Improve the Internet, The Dispatch, April 16, 2024
How to Regulate Artificial Intelligence, National Affairs, Spring 2024 issue
The Gemini Debacle is Just the Beginning, The Dispatch, February 29, 2024
Papers and Public Interest Comments
Accelerating Materials Science with AI and Robotics (Federation of American Scientists), November 27, 2024
Comment on the First Draft of the EU General-Purpose AI Code of Practice (Hyperdimensional, with Miles Brundage), November 27, 2024
Artificial Intelligence and American Rebirth: Self-Governance at the Frontier (unpublished, written September 2024)
The Deepfake Challenge: Targeted AI Policy Solutions for States (Mercatus Center), October 23, 2024
Shaping the AI Revolution: Key Policy Options and Principles for State and Local Leaders in 2024 (Mercatus Center), October 22, 2024
The BALANCE Act: A Proposal for AI Preemption and Liability (Alliance for the Future, with Brian Chau and Van Lindberg), October 3, 2024
Building America’s Applied AI Workforce: Strategies for Effective Technology Diffusion (Mercatus Center), September 11, 2024
Comment on NIST/AISI AI 800-1: Expanding Guidelines for Open-Source AI (Mercatus Center), September 9, 2024
Comment to NTIA on Open Model Weights (Independent), April 3, 2024
‘Neither Harbour nor Floor’: Contemplating the Singularity with Michael Oakeshott, September 2023
Infrastructure Chapter, Fiscal Challenges Facing US Cities: Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Hoover Institution, with Jillian Ludwig), June 2023
Prisoner Reentry Chapter, Beyond Reinventing Government: 21st Century Reform Agenda (Manhattan Institute, with Howard Husock), August 2018
‘Ideas of Another Order’: Oakeshott and Confucius in Conversation, Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, September 2015
A Peculiar Civilization: Higher Education Reform and the Idea of the South, 1845-1860, December 2013
Constitutional Public Pension Guarantees: Unfair, Unaffordable, and Bad Policy (Manhattan Institute with Stephen Eide), August 2013
Op-eds
The United States Must Win the Global Open-Source AI Race, Just Security, with Keegan McBride, November 7, 2024
4 Ways to Advance Transparency in Frontier AI Development, Time, with Daniel Kokotajlo, October 15, 2024
Only Congress and DARPA Can Rein in the Dangers of AI, Cointelegraph, July 30, 2024
Congress Can Kickstart AI Regulation by Preempting Premature State Laws, The Hill, June 27, 2024
Blockchain Has a Role to Play in Countering the Ill Effects of AI, Cointelegraph, June 24, 2024
More Clarity Needed from Colorado’s New AI Regulation, The Denver Gazette, May 17, 2024
AI and Accountability: Policymakers Risk Halting AI Innovation, Orange County Register, April 5, 2024
The Case for Federally Funded AI Research, The Hill, January 10, 2024
A Misguided Proposal for Regulating Artificial Intelligence, National Review, December 14, 2023
‘Safety’ is not the Best Standard for Regulating Artificial Intelligence, National Review, October 15, 2023
Podcasts & Media
AI Summer Podcast (ongoing, hosted by myself and Timothy Lee)
“AGI Lab Transparency Requirements & Whistleblower Protections,” The Cognitive Revolution, November 12, 2024
“Gavin Newsom Vetoes A Controversial AI Safety Bill,” Lawfare Podcast, October 4, 2024
“Dean Ball on AI regulation, "hard tech," and the philosophy of Michael Oakeshott,” Virginia’s Podcast,
“Final Analysis on CA’s AI Bill SB 1047 with Nathan Calvin, Dean W. Ball, and Steve Newman,” The Cognitive Revolution, August 24, 2024
“The Age of Artificial Intelligence,” The Aaron Renn Show, August 12, 2024
“We Don’t Need AI Regulations,” Ethical Machines, August 8, 2024
“AI Federalism,” Lawfare Podcast, July 5, 2024
“Interviewing Dean Ball on AI Policy,” Interconnects, June 27, 2024
“California Comes for AI w/Brian Chau and Dean Ball,” The Dynamist, May 21, 2024
“Examining SB 1047, California’s Proposed AI Legislation,” The Cognitive Revolution, May 4, 2024
“How to Worry, Not Panic, About Artificial Intelligence,” The National Affairs Podcast, April 28, 2024
“Merging Man and Machine? The Neurotech Frontier with Dean W. Ball,” The Cognitive Revolution, April 26, 2024
“What Congress’ TikTok Ban Means for 170 Million Users in U.S.,” Here and Now, National Public Radio (WBUR), April 26, 2024
“AI is Already Highly Regulated,” From the New World, April 17, 2024