Model Governance — Simon Carter

OpenAI appoints alignment researcher Paul Christiano to its Foundation Board

Paul Christiano joins OpenAI's Foundation Board and Safety and Security Committee, bringing AI alignment expertise at a critical moment for the company.

9 September 2026

Security & Governance

OpenAI's chief scientist says no lab has solved alignment well enough to keep scaling at full speed

Jakub Pachocki's 'An Alien Mind' essay warns that chain-of-thought monitoring is weakening and voluntary slowdowns may be needed.

6 September 2026

Security & Governance

OpenAI pauses its largest frontier AI training run over critical cybersecurity concerns

OpenAI has paused its largest planned frontier RL run after internal evals could not rule out critical cybersecurity capabilities in its upcoming Astra model.

18 August 2026