Jan Leike

Anthropic

Alignment team lead

Jan co-leads the Alignment Science team at Anthropic. Previously, he co-led the Superalignment Team at OpenAI, where he's been involved in the development of InstructGPT, ChatGPT, and the alignment of GPT-4. He developed OpenAI’s approach to alignment research and co-authored the Superalignment Team’s research roadmap. Prior to OpenAI, he was an alignment researcher at DeepMind where he prototyped reinforcement learning from human feedback. He holds a PhD in reinforcement learning theory from the Australian National University. In 2023 and 2024 TIME magazine listed him as one of the 100 most influential people in AI.