OpenAI not on track to reduce risk of ‘catastrophic’ loss of control, says board member

OpenAI's new safety hire says losing control of AI would be 'catastrophic' and that 'most people could die'

AI safety researcher Paul Christiano joins OpenAI's Safety Committee, warning unaligned superintelligence risks permanent control loss. Frontier labs lack adequate safety coordination for catastrophic risk mitigation—making alignment governance critical to CTO vendor evaluation.