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Top 100 AI · United States
Dean W. Ball
FAI 
- Score
- 6,6140 today
- Rank
- 102/198 =
- over 90 days
- ——
Dean W. Ball is the Head of Strategic Futures at OpenAI, focusing on AI advancements, policy, and societal impacts. His content includes expert analysis on AI models, intellectual discussions on technology and philosophy, and recommendations on books and podcasts.
Data as of Oct 26, 2026.
The raw numbers · last 90 days
- Median views
- 22.3K
- per post
- Median engagements
- 207
- per post
- Posts
- 289
- over 90 days
- Followers
- 76.6K
- all scored platforms
What drives the score
Percentiles 0–100 against all tracked creators.
- Reach · 30%79
Average views per post over 90 days
- Engagement · 30%57
Average reactions per post
- Audience · 30%65
Total followers, relative to population
- Consistency · 10%100
Posting frequency (25 posts / 90 days = 100)
Platforms
76.6K total followers
| Platform | Followers | Score |
|---|---|---|
| X@deanwball | 76.6K | 8,055t2 |
Last 30 days
Ball's top posts
- X · 21 days ago#1
I can suggest an equation that has the potential to impact the future: P = NP + AI
DWDean W. Ball163.3K views3.7K engagements
- X · 17 days ago#2
if you carefully watch where studer’s eyes focus as she is performing, you will understand something about what makes “genius” qualitatively different from “really really really good”
DWDean W. Ball286.7K views2.2K engagements
- X · 9 days ago#3
Distillation has always been part of the explanation for why China is so close behind the U.S. in model benchmark performance. But one of my updates after joining openai is that distillation probably plays a bigger ro…
DWDean W. Ball230.7K views1.5K engagements
- X · 28 days ago#4
It’s really incredible how there is now a type of guy in the discourse whose sincerely held take is “we need to stop worrying about these abstract sci-fi risks and focus on present-day harms like emergent ecologies of…
DWDean W. Ball92K views1.4K engagements
- X · 6 days ago#5
American chattering classes love to hate our country’s financial services sector, but mark my words: the depth and versatility of U.S. capital markets will be our mightiest weapon in the singularity. Anti-finance sent…
DWDean W. Ball100K views1.4K engagements
- X · 23 days ago#6
A very senior AI industry figure once started a conversation by asking me, basically, “under what circumstances do you think we are essentially just screwed?” and I replied with the scenario below.
DWDean W. Ball218.5K views1.2K engagements
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