OpenAI Foundation Adds Paul Christiano to Board

OpenAI appointed Paul Christiano to the OpenAI Foundation Board, the company said in a press release. He will also serve as a nonvoting observer on the OpenAI Group PBC Board.

Christiano will join the Foundation Board's Safety and Security Committee alongside its chair, Zico Kolter. The committee oversees safety and security practices across OpenAI and OpenAI Group PBC.

Christiano founded the Alignment Research Center and led alignment research at OpenAI from 2017 to 2021. He contributed to early work on reinforcement learning from human feedback and has worked with the Center for AI Standards and Innovation at the National Institute of Standards and Technology on evaluations of frontier AI models.