User:Skakkle/Helen Toner

Helen Toner is an Australian researcher and former board member of OpenAI based in the San Francisco, California area.

Eary life and education
Toner was born in 1992 in Melbourne, Australia. She graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2014 and participated in UN Youth, an organization that provides student engagement in international diplomacy simulations. During her time at the university, she was recognized by her peers for her academic and extracurricular activities.

Career
Toner's career includes involvement with the effective altruism movement, which focuses on using resources efficiently for charitable impact and ethical development in artificial intelligence. After graduating, she worked with GiveWell and Open Philanthropy, an initiative co-founded by Dustin Moskovitz.

Toner also worked in China studying the AI industry. She later worked as a research affiliate at the University of Oxford's centre for the governance of AI, before becoming Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology's director of strategy and foundational research grants. She has published a couple of articles in Foreign Affairs.

In late 2021, Toner was appointed to the board of OpenAI. In October 2023 she would publish the report "Decoding Intentions: Artificial Intelligence and Costly Signals" with two other researchers writing "OpenAI has also drawn criticism for many other safety and ethics issues related to the launches of ChatGPT and GPT-4, including regarding copyright issues, labor conditions for data annotators, and the susceptibility of their products to “jailbreaks” that allow users to bypass safety controls."

On November 17, 2023, Toner along with three other board members voted to remove Sam Altman as CEO of OpenAI. Four days later, the decision was revoked and she was removed from the board of directors.