person
Zico Kolter
CMU professor; OpenAI safety board chair
Carnegie Mellon professor of computer science; chair of OpenAI's Safety and Security Committee since 2024. Researcher on adversarial robustness and ML systems.
current Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University; Chair, OpenAI Safety and Security Committee
Strategy positions
Evals-drivenendorses
Capability/risk evals gate deployment; evals are the load-bearing artefactArgues robust evaluations and adversarial testing are the load-bearing safety practices; oversees these reviews at OpenAI as committee chair.
The Safety and Security Committee reviews safety processes for major model releases and has the authority to delay launches if safety concerns are not adequately addressed.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.