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).
- Christiano joins the Safety and Security Committee alongside chair Zico Kolter as a non-voting observer.
- He brings government experience from two administrations via CAISI at NIST, focusing on frontier model evaluations.
- He founded the Alignment Research Center and previously led OpenAI's alignment research from 2017 to 2021.
- OpenAI frames the appointment as strengthening safety, security, alignment, and governance oversight.
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Paul Christiano joins the OpenAI Foundation Board and its Safety and Security Committee, bringing experience in AI alignment, safety, and standards.
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