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Paul Christiano joins OpenAI Foundation Board

AnnouncementTalentSep 8, 2026

OpenAI announced that Paul Christiano has joined the OpenAI Foundation Board and will serve as a non-voting observer on the OpenAI Group PBC Board. He also joins the Foundation's Safety and Security Committee, chaired by Zico Kolter. Christiano is a Senior Tech Advisor at CAISI within NIST, founder of the Alignment Research Center, and previously led alignment research at OpenAI from 2017 to 2021.

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