Paul Christiano

Paul Christiano is an American researcher in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), with a specific focus on AI alignment, which is the subfield of AI safety research that aims to steer AI systems toward human interests. He is the founder and executive director of the Alignment Research Center (ARC), a nonprofit that develops methods for finding mechanistic explanations of neural network behavior, and serves on the Safety and Security Committee of the OpenAI Foundation's board.