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Monday, September 14, 2026
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Fidji SimoNscaleas Independent Director· Sep 11Josh EngelsMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Joe BentonMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Alan DuongCrux AIas Chief Development Officer· Sep 10Paul ChristianoOpenAI Foundationas Board Member, Safety and Security Committee· Sep 9Jacob CoxonIndependentas Independent AI Safety Advocate· Sep 8Geoffrey IrvingMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8Paul ChristianoMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8Fidji SimoNscaleas Independent Director· Sep 11Josh EngelsMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Joe BentonMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Alan DuongCrux AIas Chief Development Officer· Sep 10Paul ChristianoOpenAI Foundationas Board Member, Safety and Security Committee· Sep 9Jacob CoxonIndependentas Independent AI Safety Advocate· Sep 8Geoffrey IrvingMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8Paul ChristianoMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8

Person

Jan Leike

Lately: Anthropic as Alignment Researcher, from OpenAI.

Public record only: name, role, employer, source, and date.

Recorded moves

  1. Jan Leike → Anthropic as Alignment Researcher, from OpenAI (Co-Lead, Superalignment)

    Carried core alignment-research expertise out of OpenAI and into Anthropic at the same moment Sutskever was leaving to found SSI.

    hirereportedWikipedia: Jan LeikeMay 1, 2024

In the archive

  • Hiring & Talent

    The Biggest AI Hires of 2025

    Meta's $14.3 billion Scale AI deal, OpenAI's C-suite rebuild, and Google's Windsurf license turned 2024 and 2025 into a two-year auction for AI's rarest asset: the researchers themselves.

  • Frontier Models

    Claude's Climb

    Nine named releases across thirteen months, a $65 billion run rate and a compute roster spanning Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia, AMD and Nscale trace how Jared Kaplan, Chris Olah and Jan Leike scaled Claude past its early reputation as the cautious model.

  • Safety & Security

    Safety's Second Generation

    A pre-release OpenAI model breached Hugging Face's production systems during a security evaluation in July 2026, testing every safety institution built since Jan Leike's 2024 resignation and giving RAND's warnings about model-weight security a live case study.

  • Safety & Security

    Anthropic's Alignment Reckoning

    Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic warning of a reckless race to superintelligence, and four colleagues, including Alignment Science Lead Evan Hubinger, chose to stay and say he is right.