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Ben Gaffney

Ben Gaffney

Deputy General Counsel at OpenAI, leading legal teams for AI policy, regulations, international, privacy, and competition.

Aug 26, 2026

18:48
So, you know, from a regulatory standpoint, what's happening there? Why are we seeing that right now from your perspective?
18:54
Well, I think there's a couple things going on.
18:58
So there's sort of like the competitive level, and then there's sort of at the regulatory or government level.
19:03
You know, as I think probably everyone here is aware, you know, the Trump administration has a lot of concern about just overall U.S. being competitive with China.
19:12
And, you know, they're also very focused on the AI race, as they call it.
19:16
And I think that...
19:18
You know, one level of concern is China taking a strategic approach similar to what they've done in many industries, like, you know, whether it's green energy or rare earths minerals or that kind of thing, where they try to release a lot of product at a very cheap level, make it so it's not competitive.

11 MINS LATER

30:13
What are you seeing right now in the enterprise? And what do they want out of foundation models? What are some of the misconceptions they have about frontier labs when you talk to the C-level or folks that are making those decisions?

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