AI in America

Dean Ball (OpenAI)

Dean Ball is the Head of Strategic Futures at OpenAI and was previously a senior fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation (FAI). He most recently served as senior policy advisor for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and strategic advisor for AI at the National Science Foundation. Before that, he was a research fellow in the Artificial Intelligence & Progress Project at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center and a policy fellow at Fathom. Ball earned his BA in history from Hamilton College. He is the author of the newsletter Hyperdimensional. Outside of FAI, his scholarship has been published by the Mercatus Center, the Hoover Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Federation of American Scientists, the Manhattan Institute, and American Compass. Additional academic work includes “Neither Harbour nor Floor: Contemplating the Singularity with Michael Oakeshott” in Michael Oakeshott and Liberalism Revisited (2025) and “Ideas of Another Order: Michael Oakeshott and Confucius in Conversation” in Collingwood and British Idealism Studies (2016).

Ronald Moore (Screenwriter and Producer)

Ronald D. Moore is an American screenwriter and television producer. He is best known for his work on Star Trek: The Next Generation, as well as on the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica (2004-2008) television series, for which he won a Peabody Award. Moore was a member of the Kappa Alpha literary society during his time at Cornell University. He dropped out of college during his senior year, after which he moved to Los Angeles, California, with a friend in hopes of becoming a working writer. He was two weeks away from joining the United States Navy when Michael Piller, the co-executive producer of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), called with good news: his first script, “The Bonding,” led to an assignment and a spot on the writing staff in 1989. By the end of the series, he was serving as a producer. As a member of the production team, he earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Drama Series and, along with writing partner Brannon Braga, a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation for “All Good Things…,” the series finale. They would go on to earn Hugo nominations for the first two Star Trek: The Next Generation films, Star Trek: Generations (1994) and Star Trek: First Contact (1996). In 2010, Moore’s production company, Tall Ship Productions, signed an overall deal with Sony Television to develop and produce television series, including the Golden Globes-nominated historical fantasy series Outlander (2014-2026), and the original science fiction alternative history series For All Mankind (2019-2026). He also served as Executive Producer on the anthology series, Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams (2017-2018), as well as the SyFy original series, Helix (2014-2015). Under the Tall Ship banner, Moore is currently producing both Outlander and its prequel series Blood of My Blood (2025), as well as For All Mankind and its own spinoff series, Star City (2026).

Malika Saada Saar (Brown University)

Malika Saada Saar is a human rights lawyer with experience in civil and human rights law, tech policy development, multi-stakeholder engagement, and the responsible governance and use of AI. She earned her BA from Brown University, MA in Education from Stanford University, and a JD from Georgetown University Law Center. As Google’s Global Head of Human Rights at YouTube, she led a team responsible for integrating human rights principles across Trust & Safety, Government Affairs and Public Policy, Legal, and Product teams. Prior to joining YouTube, Saar served as Google’s Senior Counsel on Civil and Human Rights. In this position, she also convened state and federal lawmakers on Google initiatives to promote democracy, human rights, and protect vulnerable communities, and architected partnerships with UN Women and the UN High Commission on Refugees, and other key global partners. Newsweek and The Daily Beast have named Saar as one of “150 Women Who Shake the World.” The Obama White House selected her to serve on the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, and she is presently on the Board of Directors for Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and the Peabody’s Board of Directors. She has also been honored by Spelman College’s National Service Award, Brown University’s highest alumni honor, the Roger Williams Award, and the Georgetown Law Center’s esteemed Robert F. Drinan Award for Public Service.