Paul Christiano

Paul Christiano leads AI safety at the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, a unit of the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Before this position he founded the Alignment Research Center and was one of the six co-authors of the foundational paper Concrete Problems in AI Safety (2016, with Amodei and Olah). He is also named in the essay Sleeper Agents in the biographical context of the team that produced Anthropic's Sleeper Agents paper. He thus appears at two ends of the institutional history of this line of research.