Claim · 2026-01-16 · snapshot · Stated in source · Supported

The Decoder reported on 16 January 2026 that Andrea Vallone had moved from OpenAI to Anthropic, where she would work on the alignment team and report to Jan Leike.

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What it connects

Andrea Vallone → held role at → Anthropic

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Claim and evidence

Andrea Valloneheld role at ↓Anthropic

Machine-checkedStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: secondary · 1 source

Date: 2026-01-16 · snapshot Records dated 2026 →
Role: alignment team member, reporting to Jan Leike (as reported)

Scope and limitsThe record rests on reporting (The Decoder), which names no source for the move; no announcement by Vallone or Anthropic was retrieved. No title or start date is given.

Rests on reportingNo primary source supports this record; its supporting passages come from reporting.

The evidence 02

secondary sourceSupports the claim

OpenAI safety researcher joins Anthropic's alignment team

The Decoder · 2026-01-16

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Paraphrase

The report states that Vallone, a senior safety researcher at OpenAI, has moved to Anthropic to work on its alignment team.

Location in source Article, first paragraph

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-29

Source details and check notes

Authors: Maximilian Schreiner
Version: Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 c6f65ea82a2169ce149cab874ec913a89e23fba9d60cfdad7616b6d41b14d7b5) directly from the publisher.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Maximilian Schreiner, “OpenAI safety researcher joins Anthropic's alignment team”, 2026-01-16.
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 2 (research/lab-genealogy-2). The paraphrase’s verbatim anchor “has moved to Anthropic” matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-29 and again in a fresh retrieval. 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. The paraphrase is Selekoa’s; only the anchor is the source’s wording. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item L145) re-read the record’s sources. No human editorial review.

secondary sourceSupports the claim

OpenAI safety researcher joins Anthropic's alignment team

The Decoder · 2026-01-16

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Source excerpt

“At Anthropic, Vallone will report to Jan Leike.”

Location in source Article, fourth paragraph

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-29

Source details and check notes

Authors: Maximilian Schreiner
Version: Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 c6f65ea82a2169ce149cab874ec913a89e23fba9d60cfdad7616b6d41b14d7b5) directly from the publisher.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Maximilian Schreiner, “OpenAI safety researcher joins Anthropic's alignment team”, 2026-01-16.
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 2 (research/lab-genealogy-2). The quotation (8 words) matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-29 and again in a fresh retrieval. 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 (2026-10-31, item L145) re-read the record’s sources. No human editorial review.

Status and meaning

Editorial status. Machine-checked. Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. 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; not a start date.

Record ID lg2-oa-vallone-anthropic-2026