Person
Paul Christiano
Paul Christiano is the founder of the Alignment Research Center, a non-profit he established in 2021 to study whether advanced AI systems can be understood and controlled. Previously he led the language-model alignment team at OpenAI and is credited as a principal developer of reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). He holds a PhD from UC Berkeley and in 2024 was named head of AI safety at the US AI Safety Institute.