OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors

AI safety researcher Paul Christiano is joining the OpenAI Foundation board, where he will serve on the Safety and Security Committee led by Carnegie Mellon University professor Zico Kolter. Christiano, who co-developed reinforcement learning from human feedback at OpenAI and founded the Alignment Research Center, said he believes rapid AI capability gains pose a meaningful risk of loss of human control. He will continue advising the U.S. government's AI Safety Institute while recusing himself from OpenAI model evaluations.