Leopold Aschenbrenner
Founder, Situational Awareness LP · as of 2026-10-04 · source
@leopoldasch · Website · Wikipedia
Ex-OpenAI researcher whose 2024 essay 'Situational Awareness' framed AGI as a national-security race; his hedge fund had to sell its public book to Citadel in July 2026.
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- OpenAI fires three safety researchers who allegedly shared confidential information with an outside AI safety organization ★★★★
On Oct 1, 2026 the Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI had "parted ways" with three researchers on its safety team. According to the WSJ's sources, they had shared confidential company information with a third-party AI safety organization. OpenAI confirmed the departures for "violating our…
- Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI hedge fund Situational Awareness sells its public stock book to Citadel after July AI-stock rout ★★★
Around 2026-07-30 Situational Awareness LP, the fund launched by ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, author of the 2024 "Situational Awareness" essay, had to sell nearly all its leveraged public stock positions to Ken Griffin's Citadel at a discount, after AI-infrastructure stocks such as…
- Leopold Aschenbrenner publishes "Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead" (AGI by 2027, trillion-dollar clusters, 'The Project') ★★★★
On June 4, 2024 former OpenAI Superalignment researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner published "Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead", a ~165-page essay series. It argues that 'AGI by 2027 is strikingly plausible' by counting orders of magnitude (OOMs) of compute and algorithmic gains, that AGI would…
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