Todor Markov
Researcher, Superalignment Team · OpenAI · 2024
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What happened
Superalignment researcher who departed in 2024 after the team's dissolution. In a sworn 2025 declaration supporting an amicus brief filed by twelve former OpenAI employees, he said he had 'realized the charter had been used as a smoke screen — something to attract and retain idealistic talent while providing no real check on OpenAI's growth and its pursuit of AGI.'
“I realized the charter had been used as a smoke screen, something to attract and retain idealistic talent while providing no real check on OpenAI's growth and its pursuit of AGI. (sworn declaration, Musk v. Altman, April 2025)”
Correction: Upgraded from contextual to direct on 2026-07-22: research located his sworn declaration and amicus-brief statements, absent from the earlier citation set.
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