person
Dean Ball
Mercatus Center; AI policy commentator
Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center; author of the Hyperdimensional Substack on AI policy. Frequent technically-grounded analyst of state-level AI legislation including SB-1047.
current Research Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University
Strategy positions
Evals-drivenmixed
Capability/risk evals gate deployment; evals are the load-bearing artefactArgues most state-level AI safety legislation is poorly drafted and that federal evaluation infrastructure, not state preemption-style bills, is the most useful policy lever.
If we want AI policy that actually reduces risk, the bottleneck is not legislation but capacity: who can credibly evaluate frontier models in a way that informs policy decisions.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.