OpenAI Foundation · Thursday, September 10, 2026
Paul Christiano joins the OpenAI Foundation Board
The File desk · Sep 10, 2026, 2:00 PM UTC
Status
Confirmed from OpenAI’s Sept. 9 post (live openai.com returned 403; Internet Archive capture retrieved).
Paul Christiano is going on the OpenAI Foundation Board. OpenAI said so on Sept. 9. He will be a non-voting observer on the OpenAI Group public-benefit corporation board. He also joins the Foundation’s Safety and Security Committee, sitting with its chair, Zico Kolter. Christiano founded the Alignment Research Center and led alignment work at OpenAI from 2017 to 2021. He is a senior tech advisor at the Center for AI Standards and Innovation at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. A footnote says he will recuse himself from OpenAI-related matters and from all model evaluations in that government job. Live openai.com returned 403; the text is from an Internet Archive capture.
Paul Christiano is going on the OpenAI Foundation Board.
OpenAI announced the appointment on Sept. 9. He will be a non-voting observer on the OpenAI Group public-benefit corporation board.
He also joins the Foundation Board’s Safety and Security Committee, working with its chair, Zico Kolter. That committee, OpenAI says, oversees safety and security across OpenAI, including the public-benefit company.
Christiano founded the Alignment Research Center. He led alignment research at OpenAI from 2017 to 2021. He is a senior tech advisor at the Center for AI Standards and Innovation at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, part of the Commerce Department.
A footnote on the post says that in that government role he will recuse himself from all OpenAI-related matters and from all model evaluations. Live openai.com returned 403 to this desk. The text is from an Internet Archive capture dated Sept. 9.
What is still unknown or disputed
- Live openai.com/index/paul-christiano-joins-openai-foundation-board/ returned 403 this pass.
Primary sources
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Source 1 · fetch incomplete
Paul Christiano joins OpenAI Foundation Board
OpenAI · September 9, 2026
Live page returned HTTP 403. See Internet Archive capture.
https://openai.com/index/paul-christiano-joins-openai-foundation-board/
Source 2
Paul Christiano joins OpenAI Foundation Board (Internet Archive capture)
Internet Archive / OpenAI · September 9, 2026
Appointment to OpenAI Foundation Board; non-voting observer on OpenAI Group PBC Board; joins Safety and Security Committee with chair Zico Kolter. Senior Tech Advisor at CAISI/NIST; recusal footnote.
https://web.archive.org/web/20260909212746/https://openai.com/index/paul-christiano-joins-openai-foundation-board/