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HE TAUGHT THE MACHINES TO LISTEN

By Zimbo · October 21, 2026

AI cartoon by Zimbo: Christiano strip: 2008 IMO silver; 2017 RLHF reward button; 2021 ARC grills a sweating robot; 2023 P(doom) chalkboard; 2024 NIST job amid resign threats; finale: Christiano + Merv in a submarine gaze at APPROVED-stamping robots — HE TAUGHT THE MACHINES TO LISTEN. THEY'RE STILL WAITING FOR ORDERS.
Paul Christiano won a math Olympiad silver, co-invented the reward button behind ChatGPT (RLHF), quit OpenAI to found the Alignment Research Center, decomposed AI doom into numbered pieces — then took the US government's top AI safety job. The man who taught the machines to listen, in six panels.Zimbo for AI News Page

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