en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Christiano
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He serves as the Head of Safety for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation inside NIST.
This misstates Christiano’s current NIST role. His current bio says he is a technical advisor at CAISI, and his official NIST page lists his 2024 title as Head of AI Safety for the U.S. AI Safety Institute—not Head of Safety for CAISI.
Full reasoning
The sentence appears to combine two different affiliations/titles into one incorrect current role.
- On Paul Christiano’s current personal site, he writes: “I am also a technical advisor at the Center for AI Standards and Innovation within NIST. I previously was the technical lead at the Center for AI Standards and Innovation and the US AI Safety Institute.” That directly contradicts the claim that he currently serves as the Head of Safety for CAISI.
- NIST’s official staff page for Christiano also does not give the title used in the article. NIST lists him as “Head of AI Safety, U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute” and says the page was updated on April 29, 2024. So even NIST’s official wording uses a different title/entity than “Head of Safety for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation.”
Taken together, the article sentence appears to conflate Christiano’s earlier AI Safety Institute leadership role with his later CAISI affiliation. The supported current description is that he is a technical advisor at CAISI, not that he serves as Head of Safety for CAISI.
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- Paul Christiano
I am also a technical advisor at the Center for AI Standards and Innovation within NIST. I previously was the technical lead at the Center for AI Standards and Innovation and the US AI Safety Institute.
- Paul Christiano | NIST
Paul Christiano (Fed) Head of AI Safety, U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute ... Updated April 29, 2024.