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TechCrunch reported on 25 September 2024 that Josh Achiam, a research scientist, would take on a new role at OpenAI as head of mission alignment. Copy claim link
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Date 2024-09-25 · snapshot Activity stage announced Role Head of Mission Alignment Scope and limits The appointment rests on reporting (TechCrunch, relaying Altman's note, whose full text could not be retrieved). Achiam's own post of 11 February 2026 confirms that he held the title. The record does not establish a start date.
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OpenAI’s chief research officer has left following CTO Mira Murati’s exit ↗ TechCrunch · 2024-09-25
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Source excerpt “Josh Achiam, a research scientist, will be taking on a new role as head of mission alignment.” Location in source Paragraph listing Altman's leadership changes
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Machine-checked · 2026-10-15
Source details and check notes Authors Kyle Wiggers Version Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-15 (SHA-256 55f6630b17d7f073216fecc85a4fc17bd1c93a094433fa6983bd3dac2f0c5f3d) directly from the publisher. Reporting used because Altman’s and McGrew’s notes were posted on X as long-form or image posts whose full text could not be retrieved. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-15 Language English (en) Attribution Kyle Wiggers, “OpenAI’s chief research officer has left following CTO Mira Murati’s exit”, 2024-09-25. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy (research/lab-genealogy). The quotation (17 words) matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-15 and again in a fresh retrieval the same day. Read directly from the publisher. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Introducing Our Chief Futurist (The Prompt: Insights from OpenAI Global Affairs) ↗ OpenAI Global Affairs (Substack newsletter) · 2026-02-11
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Source excerpt “most recently as Head of Mission Alignment” Location in source Section “[News] From our Chief Futurist”, paragraph 2
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Machine-checked · 2026-10-15
Source details and check notes Authors OpenAI Global Affairs (Substack newsletter) Version Dated post, retrieved on 2026-10-15 (SHA-256 f28407fafa89c9525de3b5ade83b769b97458c6236018ceb4b997575dbb8ce85) directly from the publisher. OpenAI's Global Affairs newsletter; the section used is written in the first person by Josh Achiam. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-15 Language English (en) Attribution OpenAI Global Affairs (Substack newsletter), “Introducing Our Chief Futurist (The Prompt: Insights from OpenAI Global Affairs)”, 2026-02-11. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy (research/lab-genealogy). The quotation (7 words) matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-15 and again in a fresh retrieval the same day. Read directly from the publisher. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review. primary source Context only
Why I’m Leaving OpenAI and What I’m Doing Next ↗ Miles’s Substack · 2024-10-23
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Source excerpt “I’m working closely with Josh Achiam on transfer of some projects to the Mission Alignment team he is building” Location in source Section “What’s happening to the AGI Readiness team?”
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Machine-checked · 2026-10-15
Source details and check notes Authors Miles Brundage Version Dated post, retrieved on 2026-10-15 (SHA-256 32b123e843472450454fca5a9ae0334bd6d97dbeabd8d10c8bc1a54c94fef0de) directly from the publisher. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-15 Language English (en) Attribution Miles Brundage, “Why I’m Leaving OpenAI and What I’m Doing Next”, 2024-10-23. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy (research/lab-genealogy). The quotation (19 words) matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-15 and again in a fresh retrieval the same day. Read directly from the publisher. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
Relation. An institutional role with explicitly scoped time: snapshot, sourced interval, or unknown dates. No continuing appointment is implied.
Date. Date of the report of Sam Altman's note to staff; not a start date.
Record ID lg-gs-achiam-openai-mission-alignment-2024