Paul Christiano joins OpenAI Foundation Board as non-voting observer

Paul Christiano joins OpenAI Foundation Board

OpenAI appointed Paul Christiano to its Foundation Board and Safety and Security Committee. He is a non-voting observer on the PBC Board. Christiano founded the Alignment Research Center, led alignment at OpenAI from 2017–2021, and contributed foundational RLHF work. He currently serves as a Senior Tech Advisor at NIST's CAISI, where he evaluates frontier models. The post notes he will recuse himself from all OpenAI-related matters and model evaluations.

Why it matters: Official OpenAI appointment announcement. Christiano's triple role — former OpenAI alignment researcher, ARC founder, NIST senior advisor — layered onto the foundation board and safety committee is structurally noteworthy. Score capped at 78 because the post only states the ap...