--- title: "Helen Toner: everything in the record, dated and linked" description: "Helen Toner, Director of strategy. Every dated statement and action, linked to its source, plus live headlines naming them." canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/person-helen-toner source: AI News Monitor publisher: Paciva license: CC BY 4.0 updated: 2026-11-11T12:27:15.376Z keywords: Helen Toner, Helen Toner AI, Helen Toner quotes, Helen Toner statements, Helen Toner on AI, what Helen Toner said about AI, AI leaders, AI news --- > Helen Toner, Director of strategy. Every dated statement and action, linked to its source, plus live headlines naming them. Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/person-helen-toner The record behind this page is public and citable. Every figure has a dated row behind it, and the rows are at https://monitor.paciva.ai/api/ledger # Helen Toner Director of strategy · Center for Security and Emerging Technology ## Why now No headline this week names Helen Toner. ## What they said 5 dated items: statements, actions and media appearances by Helen Toner, linked to their sources and ordered newest first. - Apr 23, 2025 In the record "Published a Rising Tide post laying out two big open questions about AI progress in 2025 and 2026." [General AI](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-general) · [substack.com](https://helentoner.substack.com/p/2-big-questions-for-ai-progress-in) - Apr 5, 2025 In the record "Published a Rising Tide post arguing that hardcore nonproliferation is the wrong approach to AI misuse." [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [substack.com](https://helentoner.substack.com/p/nonproliferation-is-the-wrong-approach) - Sep 17, 2024 In the record "My experience on the board of OpenAI taught me how fragile internal guardrails are when money is on the line." [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [Policy & Regulation](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-policy) · [judiciary.senate.gov](https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2024-09-17_pm_-_testimony_-_toner.pdf) - May 28, 2024 In the record "Discussed the OpenAI board events and the future of AI regulation in an episode of The TED AI Show." [Policy & Regulation](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-policy) · [ted.com](https://www.ted.com/pages/what-really-went-down-at-openai-and-the-future-of-regulation-w-helen-toner) - Jun 2, 2023 In the record "Co-wrote a Foreign Affairs essay with Jenny Xiao and Jeffrey Ding arguing that regulating AI would not set America back against China." [General AI](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-general) · [CSET](https://cset.georgetown.edu/article/the-illusion-of-chinas-ai-prowess/) [Correct this record](https://monitor.paciva.ai/notes?skind=correction&sctx=Helen%20Toner#suggest) ## Where they are named ## Connections ## Stories naming Helen Toner ## Where the record shows more than one item on a topic Each line is one topic in date order. The Monitor shows the sequence and links every item; it draws no conclusion from it. - Jun 2, 2023 [Co-wrote a Foreign Affairs essay with Jenny Xiao and Jeffrey Ding arguing that regulating AI would not set America back against China.](https://cset.georgetown.edu/article/the-illusion-of-chinas-ai-prowess/) - Apr 23, 2025 [Published a Rising Tide post laying out two big open questions about AI progress in 2025 and 2026.](https://helentoner.substack.com/p/2-big-questions-for-ai-progress-in) - Sep 17, 2024 ["My experience on the board of OpenAI taught me how fragile internal guardrails are when money is on the line."](https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2024-09-17_pm_-_testimony_-_toner.pdf) - Apr 5, 2025 [Published a Rising Tide post arguing that hardcore nonproliferation is the wrong approach to AI misuse.](https://helentoner.substack.com/p/nonproliferation-is-the-wrong-approach) - May 28, 2024 [Discussed the OpenAI board events and the future of AI regulation in an episode of The TED AI Show.](https://www.ted.com/pages/what-really-went-down-at-openai-and-the-future-of-regulation-w-helen-toner) - Sep 17, 2024 ["My experience on the board of OpenAI taught me how fragile internal guardrails are when money is on the line."](https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2024-09-17_pm_-_testimony_-_toner.pdf) ## Nothing on file What a filing or a published statement says about money, employment or affiliation. Each row states the relationship, the date it is filed as of, and the document it comes from. Nothing here says why anyone did anything. No interest on file for Helen Toner. The Monitor records a disclosed interest only where a filing or the person's own published statement states one. An empty list means none has been recorded, not that none exists. Every political contribution and lobbying registration on this site is also listed together in [the ledger](https://monitor.paciva.ai/#ledger). ## Compare Helen Toner with someone else Pick a second person and read both records in date order, on one screen.