OpenAI
37 safety-motivated departures tracked
Concern Breakdown
Departure Timeline
Caitlin Kalinowski
VP of Hardware, Robotics Lead · 2026
Zoe Hitzig
Researcher · 2026
Ryan Beiermeister
VP of Product Policy · 2026
Steven Adler
Safety Researcher · 2024
Lilian Weng
VP of Research and Safety · 2024
Richard Ngo
Researcher, AI Governance · 2024
Miles Brundage
Senior Advisor for AGI Readiness · 2024
Barret Zoph
VP of Research · 2024
Mira Murati
Chief Technology Officer · 2024
Bob McGrew
Chief Research Officer · 2024
Suchir Balaji
Research Scientist · 2024
John Schulman
Co-Founder · 2024
Aleksander Madry
Head of Preparedness Team · 2024
Todor Markov
Researcher, Superalignment Team · 2024
Yuri Burda
Researcher, Superalignment Team · 2024
Steven Bills
Researcher, Superalignment Team · 2024
Jonathan Uesato
Researcher, Superalignment Team · 2024
Jeffrey Wu
Researcher, Superalignment Team · 2024
Jan Hendrik Kirchner
Researcher, Superalignment Team · 2024
Jan Leike
Co-Lead, Superalignment Team · 2024
Ilya Sutskever
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist · 2024
Ryan Lowe
Safety Researcher · 2024
Carroll Wainwright
Safety Researcher · 2024
Collin Burns
Safety Researcher · 2024
Pavel Izmailov
Safety Researcher · 2024
Cullen O'Keefe
Researcher, Policy & Governance · 2024
Leopold Aschenbrenner
Researcher, Superalignment Team · 2024
Daniel Kokotajlo
Researcher, Governance Team · 2024
William Saunders
Researcher, Superalignment Team · 2024
Paul Christiano
Research Scientist (Alignment) · 2021
Jared Kaplan
Research Scientist · 2021
Jack Clark
Head of Policy · 2021
Sam McCandlish
Research Scientist · 2021
Chris Olah
Research Scientist (Interpretability) · 2021
Tom Brown
Research Scientist (GPT-3 Lead Author) · 2021
Daniela Amodei
VP of Safety & Policy · 2021
Dario Amodei
VP of Research · 2021