Personnel: Leopold Aschenbrenner at OpenAI (Researcher, Superalignment Team)
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Our claim
entire record- Person
- Leopold Aschenbrenner
- Role
- Researcher, Superalignment Team
- Role Type
- career
- Start Date
- 2023
- End Date
- April 2024
- Is Founder
- No
- Notes
- Worked on OpenAI's superalignment team; fired in April 2024 after raising security concerns internally
Source evidence
1 src · 1 checkNoteThe source confirms Aschenbrenner worked at OpenAI and discusses superalignment extensively (Section IIIc is titled 'Superalignment'). However, the source uses past tense ('I used to work at OpenAI') and is dated June 2024, which is AFTER the claimed endDate of 2024-04. This creates a temporal inconsistency: if he left in April 2024, the June 2024 essay's past-tense phrasing is consistent, but the source does not explicitly state his departure date or confirm the April 2024 end date. The startDate of 2023 is not addressed in the source. The role as 'Researcher, Superalignment Team' is plausible given the content and acknowledgments, but not explicitly confirmed. The record is partially confirmed (past OpenAI employment, superalignment connection) but key dates are unverified.