OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors

Paul Christiano, an influential researcher focused on AI alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation’s board of directors. His appointment adds a prominent safety-focused voice to OpenAI’s nonprofit governance structure.

The move signals OpenAI’s effort to strengthen its credibility on AI safety as it faces pressure over how it manages increasingly powerful models. Adding a well-known alignment researcher could help reassure critics, though it may also intensify debate over how much influence safety advocates have inside leading AI labs.