{"id":1028108,"date":"2026-08-11T11:41:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T06:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028108"},"modified":"2026-08-11T11:41:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T06:11:26","slug":"white-house-is-upset-with-sam-altmans-openai-and-reason-is-appointment-of-the-executive-who-pentagon-ai-chief-emil-michael-called-ai-worlds-supreme-village-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/11\/white-house-is-upset-with-sam-altmans-openai-and-reason-is-appointment-of-the-executive-who-pentagon-ai-chief-emil-michael-called-ai-worlds-supreme-village-idiot\/","title":{"rendered":"White House is upset with Sam Altman&#8217;s OpenAI and reason is appointment of the executive who Pentagon AI chief Emil Michael called AI world&#8217;s &#8216;supreme village idiot&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI has picked up a new problem in Washington, and it arrived in the form of a single hire. Senior Trump administration officials say Sam Altman&#8217;s company put its standing with the government at risk when it brought on Dean Ball as head of strategic futures, according to a New York Post report published Monday. Ball is the same policy hand the Pentagon&#8217;s AI chief, Emil Michael, publicly wrote off as the AI world&#8217;s &#8220;supreme village idiot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The friction is not new, but the job title made it louder. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI has picked up a new problem in Washington, and it arrived in the form of a single hire. Senior Trump administration officials say Sam Altman&#8217;s company put its standing with the government at risk when it brought on Dean Ball as head of strategic futures, according to a New York Post report published Monday. Ball is the same policy hand the Pentagon&#8217;s AI chief, Emil Michael, publicly wrote off as the AI world&#8217;s &#8220;supreme village idiot.&#8221; The friction is not new, but the job title made it louder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028109,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028108\/revisions\/1028109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}