Paul Christiano joins OpenAI Foundation Board

Paul Christiano, a government AI safety researcher from NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology, a U.S. commerce agency) and founder of an AI alignment nonprofit, has joined OpenAI's Foundation Board as a non-voting observer and member of the Safety and Security Committee. He brings experience evaluating advanced AI systems for safety risks and previous work on RLHF (reinforcement learning from human feedback, a technique for training AI to follow human preferences), and is expected to provide independent oversight of OpenAI's safety and security practices.