OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors
OpenAI has appointed AI safety researcher Paul Christiano to its board of directors. Christiano, a proponent of AI alignment, joins the board's Safety and Security Committee amid ongoing scrutiny of the company's safety protocols.
Why it matters
The appointment signals an attempt by OpenAI to address mounting criticism regarding its safety culture and the potential for uncontrollable AI capabilities.
Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on keeping AI systems aligned with human interests and under human control, is joining the OpenAI Foundation board, the frontier lab said Wednesday.
“I now believe there is a meaningful risk that rapid acceleration in AI capabilities leads to catastrophic and irreversible loss of control in the very near term,” Christiano wrote in a social media post . “I do not think that the AI industry in general, including OpenAI, is currently on track to reduce this risk to an acceptable level. I’m joining because I believe that if OpenAI rises to the occasion we could significantly reduce risk.”
Christiano wrote that using AI models to train subsequent AI systems could result in an explosion of capabilities that their creators can’t control.
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