RLHF co-inventor Paul Christiano joins OpenAI nonprofit board, citing catastrophic-risk fears
ShakeelHashim · x · 2026-09-10
- Top AI safety researcher Paul Christiano is joining OpenAI's nonprofit board, serving on the Safety and Security Committee to support safety oversight.
- His stated reason: based on recent capability trajectories, he sees "a meaningful risk that rapid acceleration in AI capabilities leads to catastrophic and irreversible loss of control in the very near term."
- NYT's Kevin Roose calls him one of the 3 most credible AI safety experts: RLHF co-inventor, served at US CAISI, famous for early debates with Eliezer Yudkowsky and the still-cited 2019 post "What Failure Looks Like."
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