OpenAI taps AI-safety veteran Paul Christiano for board role

OpenAI has appointed Paul Christiano, a longtime AI-safety leader who led AI safety efforts at the US Center for Artificial Intelligence Standards and Innovation, to sit on the OpenAI Foundation board and join its safety and security committee as an observer, recusing from OpenAI matters. Christiano cofounded the Alignment Research Center and helped pioneer independent safety audits; his appointment reflects a broader push by AI labs to recruit from academia and policy amid heightened governance scrutiny and cyber-security incidents such as the Hugging Face attack.