Jan Leike
AI safety researcher
About Jan Leike
Jan Leike was an artificial intelligence researcher.
Jan Leike (born )
Career Leike made a six-month postdoctoral fellowship at the Future of Humanity Institute before joining DeepMind to focus on empirical AI safety research,
OpenAI In 2021, Leike joined OpenAI. In May 2024, Leike announced his resignation from OpenAI, following the departure of Sutskever, Daniel Kokotajlo and several other AI safety employees from the company. Leike wrote that "Over the past years, safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products", and that he "gradually lost trust" in OpenAI's leadership.
In May 2024, Leike joined Anthropic, an AI company founded by former OpenAI employees.
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