[14] His awards and honors include publication in The Best American Science and Nature Writing and fellowships at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Yaddo, and MacDowell.

"[17] For his work on The Alignment Problem, Christian received the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communication, given by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in partnership with Schmidt Futures.

At UC Berkeley, he is affiliated with a number of research groups, including the Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences,[21] the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society,[22] the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence,[23] and the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing.

[24] In 2023, he was awarded a Clarendon Scholarship to study experimental psychology at Lincoln College at the University of Oxford.

[31] In 2021, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote in Fast Company that The Alignment Problem was one of the "5 books that inspired" him that year.