Christiano was formerly head of safety at CAISI, now advisor to CAISI. He has (at various points in time, not all concurrently) been at two hops or less to:
Anthropic:
Anthropic LTBT. Dario Amodei (EA) collaborator. Founder of Anthropic's proposed evaluator [METR]. Board of Anthropic advisor [Redwood Research]. Connected via ARC/METR to Open Philanthopy (EA) [co-founded by Karnofsky (EA), anthropic alignment and spouse of Daniela Amodei (EA)]. Pre-release access to models given to Christiano-incubated ARC evals and CAISI/NIST.
Openai: Foundation board and safety committee. ex-Head of alignment. Founder of Openai contractor [METR]. Shared funding with Openai via ARC/METR [Open Philanthropy (EA)]. Pre-release access to models given to Christiano-incubated ARC evals and CAISI/NIST.
ARC: Founder. Funded via ARC by Bankman Fried (EA), FDX money controlled by ex-openai Aschenbrenner (EA). Funded via ARC by EA Open Philanthropy.
Redwood Research: Board. Connected to Redwood via ARC (beneficiary of Redwood's constellation real estate). Connected to Redwood CEO via ARC board.
All independent OAI hack report authors (Cotra, Greenblatt, Wijk):
- Greenblatt: Board of Greenblatt's employer [Redwood Research]. Connected to Greenblatt's employer via ARC [Redwood Research]. Founded METR with Greenblatt's spouse [Barnes]. Connected with Greenblatt's employer via common funding [Open Philanthropy].
- Cotra: Spouse. Founded Cotra's employer [METR]. Shared funding [Open Philanthropy, Cotra's former employer].
- Wijik. Founded Wijik's employer [METR].
They accepted terms for their independent hack investigation of 6 days of work only and transcripts cherry-picked by Openai, a whitewash.
So thankful that these open models exist.