Safety and alignment

OpenAI disbands dedicated Superalignment team

OpenAI confirmed that it disbanded the team created to solve control of future superintelligent systems and redistributed its members after co-leaders Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike departed; Leike said safety had fallen behind product priorities.

CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM65confidence 98/100

Why it moved the index

Dissolving a dedicated frontier-control team and losing both leaders reduced concentrated organizational capacity for long-term alignment at a leading lab while product deployment accelerated.

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Assessment history

  1. R1
    Toward 65 · confidence 98

    New May 2024 completed organizational change affecting long-term frontier-model control research.

    12 Aug 2026