Paul Christiano

Paul Christiano is an AI alignment researcher who currently serves on the Safety and Security Committee of the OpenAI Foundation Board as a non-voting observer. He is the founder and executive director of the Alignment Research Center (ARC) and a Senior Technical Advisor at the Center for AI Standards and Innovation within NIST. He is best known as one of the principal architects of reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), having led the language model alignment team at OpenAI from 2017 to 2021. He is married to Ajeya Cotra, a member of METR's technical staff.