Dean Ball (OpenAI): "We should not think about AI as a race"

It is difficult to talk about the future of artificial intelligence today without ending up talking about almost everything else. About work and the distribution of wealth, but also about power, the relationship between

, the role Europe may be able to play or the extent to which we will be capable of controlling increasingly autonomous systems.

The same week that OpenAI launches its latest model, GPT6-Astra, we speak with

. His job, as he explains himself, is to think about the scenarios AI could open up and which decisions we make today might bring us closer to some of them and further away from others. In October, he will also be

, which

will once again cover from Illa da Toxa.

Ball focuses on

, argues that governments should have mechanisms to slow AI development if circumstances require it and rejects one of the metaphors that has most shaped the technological debate: that of the "race". Speaking as a private citizen, he goes even further: "An arms race here benefits nobody", he reiterates. He also has a particularly direct message for this side of the Atlantic: