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Paul Christiano

Lately: OpenAI Foundation as Board Member, Safety and Security Committee, from Alignment Research Center.

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Sep 9
Christiano seated on OpenAI Foundation safety and security committee
Paul Christiano to OpenAI Foundation, Board Member, Safety and Security Committee, from Alignment Research Center
Christiano trades a purely external advisory role for a seat inside OpenAI's own safety governance, letting the lab most associated with race dynamics answer its loudest alignment critic with a board chair instead of a rebuttal.
boardconfirmedSep 9, 2026OpenAI: Paul Christiano joins OpenAI Foundation Board
Sep 8
Paul Christiano joins MAISI scientific advisory panel
Paul Christiano to Mathematical AI Safety Institute, Scientific Advisory Panel Member, from Alignment Research Center
Christiano lends the Alignment Research Center's empirical credibility to a mathematics-first safety institute, a bet that proof and practice converge faster together than apart.
boardconfirmedSep 8, 2026Mathematical AI Safety Institute: Developing mathematical foundations for the safety of powerful AI systems.

Safety & Security
The Signal Brief: Thursday's Doomers, Dollars, and Debuts
Paul Christiano's arrival on OpenAI's safety board, Harvey's climb past fifteen billion dollars, and John Ternus's first keynote as Apple's chief executive show governance and capital sprinting to match each other's pace this week.
Safety & Security
Alignment's Advocate: OpenAI Adds Its Sharpest Critic to the Boardroom
Paul Christiano, the researcher who pioneered reinforcement learning from human feedback and later warned of catastrophic AI risk, now holds a vote on the committee empowered to delay OpenAI's next model release.