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Paul Christiano joins OpenAI Foundation Board

OpenAI appointed Paul Christiano, NIST CAISI advisor and ARC founder, as non-voting observer on its Foundation Board and Safety and Security Committee.

OpenAI named Paul Christiano a non-voting observer on the OpenAI Group PBC Board and a member of the Foundation Board's Safety and Security Committee, which is chaired by Zico Kolter. Christiano is a Senior Tech Advisor at NIST's Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), where he worked on evaluating frontier AI models with national security implications, and is the founder of the Alignment Research Center (ARC). He led alignment research at OpenAI from 2017 to 2021 and contributed foundational work on reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF).

OpenAI Newsupdated Sep 9, 22:25 UTC · 6d agofirst Sep 9, 17:00 UTC · 6d agoAI industry 2 sources

Group of bipartisan lawmakers ask US government to ban several hack-for-hire firms

Bipartisan US lawmakers urged the Commerce Department to add hack-for-hire firms BellTroX, CyberRoot, and Appin/Sunkissed Organic Farms to the entity list.

Senators Ron Wyden and Sheldon Whitehouse and Representative Pat Harrigan asked Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to place three Indian firms on the entity list, which would bar US businesses from transacting with them. The letter says BellTroX, CyberRoot, and Sunkissed Organic Farms (formerly Appin) have conducted cyberattacks and targeted espionage against Americans for over a decade, allegedly at the behest of the Qatari government, and used foreign courts to censor reporting on their activities. Appin previously secured a global takedown order against Reuters that was later lifted, and has been linked to hacks of FIFA officials tied to Qatar's 2022 World Cup plans.

TechCrunch · Securityupdated Sep 10, 17:19 UTC · 5d agofirst Sep 9, 13:01 UTC · 6d agoPolicy & legal 3 sources1

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