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Superalignment team (OpenAI) ended as a unit of ↓ OpenAI
WIRED reported on 17 May 2024 that OpenAI had confirmed that its Superalignment team was no more; WIRED wrote that the group's work would be absorbed into OpenAI's other research efforts. Copy claim link
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Date 2024-05-17 · snapshot Scope and limits The record rests on reporting (WIRED), which relays OpenAI's confirmation that the team was no more; the sentence about the work being absorbed is WIRED's own, not attributed to OpenAI; no OpenAI announcement was retrieved. The record documents a team ended as a unit and its work absorbed into the rest of OpenAI; the record does not establish where each member went or how the work was reorganised.
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OpenAI’s Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded ↗ WIRED · 2024-05-17
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Source excerpt “Now OpenAI’s “superalignment team” is no more, the company confirms.” Location in source Paragraph 2
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Machine-checked · 2026-10-15
Source details and check notes Authors Will Knight Version Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-15 (SHA-256 0d45d5d10183fb40434e2cd12358744848d643be781a6758eb4046725341f6a2) directly from the publisher. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-15 Language English (en) Attribution Will Knight, “OpenAI’s Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded”, 2024-05-17. 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 (10 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 judged it partly supported; its findings were applied at admission. No human editorial review. secondary source Supports the claim
OpenAI’s Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded ↗ WIRED · 2024-05-17
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Source excerpt “The group’s work will be absorbed into OpenAI’s other research efforts.” Location in source Paragraph 2
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Machine-checked · 2026-10-15
Source details and check notes Authors Will Knight Version Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-15 (SHA-256 0d45d5d10183fb40434e2cd12358744848d643be781a6758eb4046725341f6a2) directly from the publisher. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-15 Language English (en) Attribution Will Knight, “OpenAI’s Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded”, 2024-05-17. 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 (11 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 judged it partly supported; its findings were applied at admission. 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 documents that a team or unit ceased to exist as a separate unit within its parent (subject: the unit; object: the parent). Where its members or work went is not established; a planned change is marked announced.
Date. Date of the report, by which OpenAI had confirmed that the team was no more. No OpenAI statement with its own date was retrieved, and no effective date is given.
Record ID lg-gs-superalignment-team-absorbed-2024