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Superalignment

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Source Tabledivisions
Source IDGWDtsKGrzx
Descriptionteam
ParentOpenAI
Children
CreatedApr 21, 2026, 11:29 AM
UpdatedApr 21, 2026, 11:29 AM
SyncedApr 21, 2026, 11:29 AM

Record Data

idGWDtsKGrzx
slug
parentOrgIdOpenAI(organization)
nameSuperalignment
divisionTypeteam
leadJan Leike(person)
statusdissolved
startDate2023-07
endDate2024-05
website
sourceopenai.com/index/introducing-superalignment/
notesCo-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

partial85% confidence

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.

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Thing ID: GWDtsKGrzx

Source Table: divisions

Source ID: GWDtsKGrzx

Parent Thing ID: sid_1LcLlMGLbw