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Jan Leike

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Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic

🇩🇪 German

Leike has spent his career on the problem of keeping increasingly capable AI systems aligned with human intentions. He helped develop reinforcement learning from human feedback, co-led OpenAI's Superalignment team, and moved to Anthropic to lead work on methods for supervising systems that may become more capable than their overseers.

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Member of Technical Staff
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 8, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Aug 1, '2697,57875,53853,497Aug 25, '25Jun 15, '26Jul 1, '26Aug 1, '26
97,578citations as of Aug 1, '26+3,572 since Jul 1, '26
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