Paul Christiano joins OpenAI Foundation Board

OpenAI announced on September 9, 2026, that Paul Christiano has joined the OpenAI Foundation Board as a nonvoting observer on the OpenAI Group PBC Board. Christiano will also serve on the Foundation’s Safety and Security Committee, where he will work with chair Zico Kolter. The committee oversees safety and security practices across OpenAI, including OpenAI Group PBC. OpenAI said Christiano brings experience from his work at the Center for AI Standards and Innovation at NIST, where he has helped evaluate frontier AI models and consider ways to reduce safety and security risks. He is also the founder of the Alignment Research Center and previously led alignment research at OpenAI from 2017 to 2021.