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Personnel: Leopold Aschenbrenner at OpenAI (Researcher, Superalignment Team)

partial75% confidence

1 evidence check

Last checked: 4/4/2026

The source confirms Leopold Aschenbrenner worked at OpenAI (past tense: 'used to work'), and the essay heavily discusses superalignment, which aligns with the claimed role. However, the source does not explicitly confirm his title as 'Researcher' or his specific assignment to the 'Superalignment Team.' The start date (2023) and end date (2024-04, implying April 2024) are not directly stated in the source—only that he 'used to work' there as of June 2024. The temporal claims are unverifiable from this source alone.

Evidence — 1 source, 1 check

situational-awareness.ai/(1 check)

partial75%Haiku 4.5 · 4/4/2026

Found: Leopold Aschenbrenner is identified as the author of 'Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead' (dated June 2024). A footnote states 'While I used to work at OpenAI, all of this is based on publicly-av…

Note: The source confirms Leopold Aschenbrenner worked at OpenAI (past tense: 'used to work'), and the essay heavily discusses superalignment, which aligns with the claimed role. However, the source does not explicitly confirm his title as 'Researcher' or his specific assignment to the 'Superalignment Team.' The start date (2023) and end date (2024-04, implying April 2024) are not directly stated in the source—only that he 'used to work' there as of June 2024. The temporal claims are unverifiable from this source alone.

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