About Paul Christiano
Paul Christiano is the Director of the Alignment Research Center, known for his previous role leading the language model alignment team at OpenAI and his contributions as a research associate at FHI.
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Paul Christiano serves as the Director of the Alignment Research Center, focusing on the alignment of advanced AI systems with human values. Before his current role, he led the language model alignment team at OpenAI, where he worked on ensuring that AI developments align with beneficial outcomes. Christiano is also a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI), contributing to research on long-term global priorities. Additionally, he acts as a technical advisor for the Open Philanthropy Project, providing expertise on AI and computing. He holds a Ph.D. from the theory of computing group at the University of California, Berkeley, where he developed a strong foundation in theoretical computing.
About Ought
Ought is a non-profit research lab focused on delegating high-quality reasoning to advanced machine learning systems and has spun off Elicit, a public benefit corporation designed to assist with literature reviews.