OpenAI hired Thomas Lind, the former head of AI policy at the White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director, to run cyber and strategic risk within its national security policy group, according to The Information. Lind’s former office helped write Trump’s June executive order on AI, which lets developers voluntarily have the government review models ahead of release, and it still oversees how that framework is carried out. Lind joins Dean Ball, another Trump White House alum OpenAI hired in July, who worked on the administration’s 2025 AI Action Plan.
