Paul Christiano joins OpenAI Foundation Board

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September 9, 2026

Paul Christiano joins OpenAI Foundation Board

Paul Christiano will also join the Foundation’s Safety and Security

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September 9, 2026

Paul Christiano joins OpenAI Foundation Board

Paul Christiano will also join the Foundation’s Safety and Security Committee.

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We’re announcing the appointment of Paul Christiano to the OpenAI Foundation Board. He will be a non-voting observer on the OpenAI Group PBC Board.

Paul will also join the Safety and Security Committee (SSC) of the Foundation Board, working alongside its chair, Zico Kolter. The SSC provides governance over safety and security practices across all of OpenAI, including OpenAI Group PBC.

Paul brings government experience spanning two administrations through his work at the

Center for AI Standards and Innovation

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(CAISI) within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he is a Senior Tech Advisor

. During his time at CAISI and its predecessor, the U.S. AI Safety Institute, Paul has worked on evaluating frontier AI models, including capabilities with national security implications, and on approaches to mitigating associated safety and security risks.

Paul is also the founder of the

Alignment Research Center

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(ARC), a nonprofit research organization focused on aligning advanced AI systems with human interests. From 2017 to 2021, Paul led alignment research at OpenAI and contributed foundational work on reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). In this new capacity, Paul brings a distinct and technically grounded perspective to OpenAI’s governance decisions. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

Paul has helped define the field of AI alignment through work that is rigorous and focused on the hardest questions posed by increasingly capable systems. His experience working on frontier AI safety and standards in government, together with his technical judgment, will strengthen the Board’s oversight and the

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