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Business Insider reported on 9 May 2024 that Daniel Kokotajlo, who worked on OpenAI's governance team, had left the company the previous month; Kokotajlo's LessWrong profile states that he quit OpenAI due to losing confidence that it would behave responsibly around the time of AGI. Copy claim link
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Date 2024-04 · event Role worked on the governance team Scope and limits The departure date and the team rest on reporting (Business Insider, citing two people familiar with the situation). The stated reason is Kokotajlo's own wording on an undated profile page, read as it stood when retrieved; Business Insider quoted the same wording from the profile on 9 May 2024. The record does not establish a title or a last working day.
Stated reason, as given by Daniel Kokotajlo Kokotajlo states that he quit because he had lost confidence that OpenAI would behave responsibly around the time of AGI. Attributed to Daniel Kokotajlo, in “Daniel Kokotajlo (LessWrong user profile, undated)”; not a finding about why it happened.
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2 OpenAI researchers working on safety and governance have quit ↗ Business Insider · 2024-05-09
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Source excerpt “Daniel Kokotajlo left last month” Location in source Paragraph 2
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Machine-checked · 2026-10-15
Source details and check notes Authors Jyoti Mann Version Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-15 (SHA-256 3b7437305d3cae2246fc3ffd3e52df4eb906daea141b59251374085efbcc1049) directly from the publisher. The retrieved page is the subscriber-wall version; the opening paragraphs used here are in the retrieved text. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-15 Language English (en) Attribution Jyoti Mann, “2 OpenAI researchers working on safety and governance have quit”, 2024-05-09. 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 (5 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. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-16/17) re-read the record’s sources and agreed with the record. No human editorial review. secondary source Supports the claim
2 OpenAI researchers working on safety and governance have quit ↗ Business Insider · 2024-05-09
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Source excerpt “Kokotajlo, who worked on the governance team” Location in source Paragraph 3
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Machine-checked · 2026-10-15
Source details and check notes Authors Jyoti Mann Version Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-15 (SHA-256 3b7437305d3cae2246fc3ffd3e52df4eb906daea141b59251374085efbcc1049) directly from the publisher. The retrieved page is the subscriber-wall version; the opening paragraphs used here are in the retrieved text. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-15 Language English (en) Attribution Jyoti Mann, “2 OpenAI researchers working on safety and governance have quit”, 2024-05-09. 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. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-16/17) re-read the record’s sources and agreed with the record. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Daniel Kokotajlo (LessWrong user profile, undated) ↗ LessWrong · Publication date unknown
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Source excerpt “Quit OpenAI due to losing confidence that it would behave responsibly around the time of AGI.” Location in source Profile biography
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Source details and check notes Authors Daniel Kokotajlo Version Undated post, retrieved on 2026-10-15 (SHA-256 ad17d691f8d9ddf2da2da727a4b08ae833a2cfdba9bfd7b208ca29f2d400c29e) directly from the publisher. Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-15 Language English (en) Attribution Daniel Kokotajlo, “Daniel Kokotajlo (LessWrong user profile, undated)”. 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 (16 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. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-16/17) re-read the record’s sources and agreed with the record. 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. A source announced this person’s departure from a specified role. The event date is the announcement, not an inferred final working day or end of every association.
Date. Month of the departure as reported by Business Insider on 9 May 2024 (“last month”); no dated announcement by Kokotajlo was retrieved, and his profile statement is undated (retrieved 15 October 2026).
Record ID lg-gs-kokotajlo-openai-departure-2024