OpenAI hires Thomas Lind to lead cyber and strategic risk

OpenAI: OpenAI is an artificial intelligence company that develops and deploys advanced AI models and systems. It maintains a dedicated national security policy team to manage cyber and strategic risks tied to its technologies. The company recently hired Thomas Lind to lead cyber and strategic risk efforts within that team. Thomas Lind: Thomas Lind is a cybersecurity and AI policy specialist who served as a White House cyber official running AI policy until June. He previously worked in the office responsible for drafting President Trump's June executive order on AI. Lind has joined OpenAI to head cyber and strategic risk on its national security policy team. • Lind served as head of policy and senior adviser at the Office of the National Cyber Director from April to June 2026. • He helped shape the administration’s AI security framework, cybercrime strategy, and June executive action on advanced AI security. • His new role places him within OpenAI’s national security policy team, led by former national security official Sasha Baker. • The hiring connects OpenAI more directly with recent federal policy work on frontier-model cyber risks and critical-infrastructure defense. • The move is a personnel and policy development, not evidence of a new regulation, enforcement action, or change to OpenAI’s product strategy.