--- title: "Paul Christiano: everything in the record, dated and linked" description: "Paul Christiano, Nonvoting observer, Safety Committee, OpenAI. Every dated statement and action, linked to its source, plus live headlines naming them." canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/person-paul-christiano source: AI News Monitor publisher: Paciva license: CC BY 4.0 updated: 2026-11-11T12:27:15.376Z keywords: Paul Christiano, Paul Christiano AI, Paul Christiano quotes, Paul Christiano statements, Paul Christiano on AI, what Paul Christiano said about AI, AI leaders, AI news --- > Paul Christiano, Nonvoting observer, Safety Committee, OpenAI. Every dated statement and action, linked to its source, plus live headlines naming them. Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/person-paul-christiano 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 # Paul Christiano Nonvoting observer, Safety Committee, OpenAI Foundation board · OpenAI Foundation ## Why now No headline this week names Paul Christiano. ## What they said 6 dated items: statements, actions and media appearances by Paul Christiano, linked to their sources and ordered newest first. - Sep 9, 2026 In the record "Joined the OpenAI Foundation board as a nonvoting observer on the Safety Committee" [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/paul-christiano-joins-openai-foundation-board/) - Sep 9, 2026 In the record · Newsletter · Substack; the dated passage has not been located, statement · Warning "Published his own p(doom) estimate, as reported: about 4 percent within one year and 15 percent within three years" dated passage not located [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [Paul Christiano](https://paulfchristiano.substack.com/) - Sep 9, 2026 In the record "I am excited to be joining the OpenAI nonprofit board, serving on the Safety and Security Committee to support safety oversight." [Policy & Regulation](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-policy) · [substack.com](https://paulfchristiano.substack.com/p/personal-statement-on-joining-the) - Oct 31, 2023 In the record "I think that it's really hard not to have really big error bars when you're doing this." [General AI](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-general) · [Dwarkesh Podcast](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/paul-christiano) - Oct 24, 2023 In the record "I think AI developers are not prepared to work with very powerful AI systems." [Policy & Regulation](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-policy) · [greaterwrong.com](https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/dxgEaDrEBkkE96CXr/thoughts-on-responsible-scaling-policies-and-regulation) - Apr 27, 2023 In the record "Probability of an AI takeover: 22%" [General AI](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-general) · [LessWrong](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xWMqsvHapP3nwdSW8/my-views-on-doom) [Correct this record](https://monitor.paciva.ai/notes?skind=correction&sctx=Paul%20Christiano#suggest) ## Where they are named ## Connections ## Stories naming Paul Christiano ## 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. - Sep 9, 2026 [Published his own p(doom) estimate, as reported: about 4 percent within one year and 15 percent within three years](https://paulfchristiano.substack.com/) - Sep 9, 2026 [Joined the OpenAI Foundation board as a nonvoting observer on the Safety Committee](https://openai.com/index/paul-christiano-joins-openai-foundation-board/) - Oct 24, 2023 ["I think AI developers are not prepared to work with very powerful AI systems."](https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/dxgEaDrEBkkE96CXr/thoughts-on-responsible-scaling-policies-and-regulation) - Sep 9, 2026 ["I am excited to be joining the OpenAI nonprofit board, serving on the Safety and Security Committee to support safety oversight."](https://paulfchristiano.substack.com/p/personal-statement-on-joining-the) - Apr 27, 2023 ["Probability of an AI takeover: 22%"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xWMqsvHapP3nwdSW8/my-views-on-doom) - Oct 31, 2023 ["I think that it's really hard not to have really big error bars when you're doing this."](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/paul-christiano) ## 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 Paul Christiano. 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 Paul Christiano with someone else Pick a second person and read both records in date order, on one screen.