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Jan Leike had departure announced from ↓ OpenAI Jan Leike posted on X on 17 May 2024 that the previous day had been his last day at OpenAI as head of alignment, superalignment lead and executive; he stated that he had been disagreeing with OpenAI leadership about the company’s core priorities for quite some time, until a breaking point was reached. Copy claim link
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Date 2024-05-17 · event Role Head of alignment, superalignment lead and executive Scope and limits A first-person announcement. The stated reason is his own account in the same thread and is attributed, not adopted.
Stated reason, as given by Jan Leike (2024-05-17) Leike stated that he had been disagreeing with OpenAI leadership about the company’s core priorities for quite some time, until a breaking point was reached. Attributed to Jan Leike, in “Post of 17 May 2024 (second post of the thread on leaving OpenAI)”; not a finding about why it happened.
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Post of 17 May 2024 on his last day at OpenAI (first post of a thread) ↗ X · 2024-05-17
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Paraphrase Leike writes that the previous day was his last as head of alignment, superalignment lead and executive at OpenAI.
Location in source Post text (first post of the thread)
How it was read Post text read through X’s syndication endpoint, which can truncate long notes
Machine-checked · 2026-10-15
Source details and check notes Authors Jan Leike Version Dated post, retrieved on 2026-10-15 (SHA-256 5d96c342e2bab3675eb9b97853b35663a21e7daa3a90bd8dc61b7a097b4a81f8) through X’s own syndication endpoint for the post’s text, which truncates long notes. Read through X’s syndication endpoint (text only). Publication date is the post’s UTC timestamp. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-15 Language English (en) Attribution Jan Leike, “Post of 17 May 2024 on his last day at OpenAI (first post of a thread)”, 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 paraphrase’s verbatim anchor “Yesterday” matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-15 and again in a fresh retrieval the same day. Read through X’s own syndication endpoint for the post’s text, which truncates long notes. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. The paraphrase is Selekoa’s; only the anchor is the source’s wording. 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
Post of 17 May 2024 (second post of the thread on leaving OpenAI) ↗ X · 2024-05-17
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Paraphrase Leike writes that he had long disagreed with OpenAI leadership about the company’s core priorities until they reached a breaking point.
Location in source Post text (second post of the thread)
How it was read Post text read through X’s syndication endpoint, which can truncate long notes
Machine-checked · 2026-10-15
Source details and check notes Authors Jan Leike Version Dated post, retrieved on 2026-10-15 (SHA-256 e3b87c36aa0125f9fafec84868e5ef8a4fd80eae9cc4d7ed65242612421175cc) through X’s own syndication endpoint for the post’s text, which truncates long notes. Read through X’s syndication endpoint (text only). Publication date is the post’s UTC timestamp. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-15 Language English (en) Attribution Jan Leike, “Post of 17 May 2024 (second post of the thread on leaving OpenAI)”, 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 paraphrase’s verbatim anchor “core priorities” matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-15 and again in a fresh retrieval the same day. Read through X’s own syndication endpoint for the post’s text, which truncates long notes. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. The paraphrase is Selekoa’s; only the anchor is the source’s wording. 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. Date of the post; his last working day is stated as the previous day.
Record ID lg-oai-leike-departure-2024