Metadata
| Source Table | divisions |
| Source ID | GWDtsKGrzx |
| Description | team |
| Parent | OpenAI |
| Children | — |
| Created | Apr 21, 2026, 11:29 AM |
| Updated | Apr 21, 2026, 11:29 AM |
| Synced | Apr 21, 2026, 11:29 AM |
Record Data
id | GWDtsKGrzx |
slug | — |
parentOrgId | OpenAI(organization) |
name | Superalignment |
divisionType | team |
lead | Jan Leike(person) |
status | dissolved |
startDate | 2023-07 |
endDate | 2024-05 |
website | — |
source | openai.com/index/introducing-superalignment/ |
notes | Co-led by Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike. Aimed to solve alignment for superintelligent AI within 4 years using 20% of compute. Dissolved May 2024 after leadership departures. Jan Leike listed as lead. |
Source Check Verdicts
Last checked: 4/24/2026
The source confirms three of four key fields: name ('Superalignment'), type ('team'), and implicitly the existence of the division. However, the source is from July 2023 and announces the team's creation with a four-year goal. The claim states status: 'dissolved', but the source text does not address whether the team was subsequently dissolved. The source is a founding announcement, not a retrospective account of the team's dissolution. Without a source that explicitly confirms the dissolution or provides a date when it occurred, the 'dissolved' status cannot be confirmed from this text alone. This is a temporal mismatch issue: the source documents the team's establishment, not its later dissolution. The claim's status field is unverifiable from this source.
Debug info
Thing ID: GWDtsKGrzx
Source Table: divisions
Source ID: GWDtsKGrzx
Parent Thing ID: sid_1LcLlMGLbw