Jan Leike
Alignment research lead, Anthropic · as of 2026-10-04 · source
Co-led OpenAI's Superalignment team until his 2024 resignation, when he said safety had 'taken a backseat to shiny products'; now at Anthropic.
Role changes
- 2024-05 Joined Anthropic after resigning from OpenAI source
News mentioning Jan Leike (2)
- Departing OpenAI safety lead David Robinson writes in The Atlantic: 'I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken' ★★★★
On Oct 3, 2026 David Robinson, who led the writing of OpenAI's safety reports for its frontier launches, published an essay in The Atlantic explaining his resignation. He argues that OpenAI's "iterative deployment" (trial and error) "guarantees periodic failures", cites the Hugging Face breach by…
- Jan Leike resigns, saying OpenAI's safety culture 'has taken a backseat to shiny products'; Superalignment team dissolved ★★★★
In mid-May 2024 both leads of OpenAI's Superalignment team left: chief scientist Ilya Sutskever announced his departure on May 14 and Jan Leike posted 'I resigned' hours later. On May 17 Leike explained in an X thread that 'safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products' and…
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- Jan Leike original ↗ Jan Leike @janleike · x · 2024-05-17
Cited as a source by: 2024-05-17-leike-resigns-superalignment-disbanded - Jan Leike original ↗ Jan Leike @janleike · x · 2024-05-15
Cited as a source by: 2024-05-17-leike-resigns-superalignment-disbanded
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