[Paul Christiano Joins OpenAI Board of Directors as a Member of the Safety and Security Committee] AI alignment researcher Paul Christiano has joined the OpenAI Board of Directors and will serve as a member of the Safety and Security Committee. Paul Christiano stated that the rapid acceleration of AI capabilities poses significant risks of catastrophic and irreversible loss of control, and the AI industry is not currently on track to effectively mitigate these risks. Paul Christiano is one of the core developers of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) technology, previously founded the Alignment Research Center (ARC), and will continue to serve as an AI safety advisor to the U.S. government, though he will recuse himself from OpenAI-related matters and model evaluation work. (Source: TechCrunch)