Jan Leike
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individual · Individual · listed
- Name
- Jan Leike
- Profile slug
- jan-leike
- Version
- 2
- Focus areas
- Alignment & control
- Evaluation & independent auditing
- Public professional roles
- evaluator
- Publicly stated affiliations
- Not recorded
- Media channels
- Not recorded
What they do
SIRDA editorial
At a glance
Anthropic alignment researcher, formerly a leader of alignment work at OpenAI, focused on scalable safety methods.
Their current place in the ecosystem spans alignment and control, and evaluation and independent auditing. SIRDA tags its operational role as AI evaluation.
Current work and relevance
Leike co-led OpenAI's Superalignment team before leaving in 2024, citing disagreements over safety priorities, and now works on alignment research at Anthropic, continuing his focus on scalable oversight and techniques for keeping increasingly capable models aligned with human intent.
SIRDA tracks Jan Leike because this person's research, leadership, public argument, or institutional work has materially shaped advanced-AI safety. The profile connects those contributions to current organizations, projects, debates, and SIRDA questions while keeping personal views separate from the positions of any organization with which the person is affiliated.
Relationship web
- Anthropic: Jan Leike works on alignment at Anthropic
Sources
- Official or primary page: Jan Leike
- Recent primary/relevant update
- Recent primary/relevant update
- Recent primary/relevant update
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Editorial note
This is SIRDA editorial content. Inclusion is an educational listing. It does not mean the subject has joined SIRDA, endorsed the founding inquiry, or approved this description. Factual corrections can be incorporated with a visible revision record, and substantive disagreements can be published as attributed responses.
Key work
No key work recorded.
Sources
- https://www.anthropic.com/research
- https://centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/the-ai-doc-is-now-on-netflix-all
- https://www.humanetech.com/landing/the-ai-doc
- https://www.focusfeatures.com/the-ai-doc-or-how-i-became-an-apocaloptimist
- https://www.focusfeatures.com/article/the-human-beings-who-made-the-ai-doc-or-how-i-became-an-apocaloptimist-a-reality
Version history
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Version 2: Published SIRDA editorial snapshot: 2026-09-23 00:00:00+00
individual · Individual · listed
- Name
- Jan Leike
- Profile slug
- jan-leike
- Version
- 2
- Focus areas
- Alignment & control
- Evaluation & independent auditing
- Public professional roles
- evaluator
- Publicly stated affiliations
- Not recorded
- Media channels
- Not recorded
What they do
SIRDA editorial
At a glance
Anthropic alignment researcher, formerly a leader of alignment work at OpenAI, focused on scalable safety methods.
Their current place in the ecosystem spans alignment and control, and evaluation and independent auditing. SIRDA tags its operational role as AI evaluation.
Current work and relevance
Leike co-led OpenAI's Superalignment team before leaving in 2024, citing disagreements over safety priorities, and now works on alignment research at Anthropic, continuing his focus on scalable oversight and techniques for keeping increasingly capable models aligned with human intent.
SIRDA tracks Jan Leike because this person's research, leadership, public argument, or institutional work has materially shaped advanced-AI safety. The profile connects those contributions to current organizations, projects, debates, and SIRDA questions while keeping personal views separate from the positions of any organization with which the person is affiliated.
Relationship web
- Anthropic: Jan Leike works on alignment at Anthropic
Sources
- Official or primary page: Jan Leike
- Recent primary/relevant update
- Recent primary/relevant update
- Recent primary/relevant update
- Recent primary/relevant update
Editorial note
This is SIRDA editorial content. Inclusion is an educational listing. It does not mean the subject has joined SIRDA, endorsed the founding inquiry, or approved this description. Factual corrections can be incorporated with a visible revision record, and substantive disagreements can be published as attributed responses.
Key work
No key work recorded.
Sources
- https://www.anthropic.com/research
- https://centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/the-ai-doc-is-now-on-netflix-all
- https://www.humanetech.com/landing/the-ai-doc
- https://www.focusfeatures.com/the-ai-doc-or-how-i-became-an-apocaloptimist
- https://www.focusfeatures.com/article/the-human-beings-who-made-the-ai-doc-or-how-i-became-an-apocaloptimist-a-reality
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