Comment by Jan Leike

Former head of alignment at OpenAI; now VP of safety at Anthropic
I believe much more of our bandwidth should be spent getting ready for the next generations of models, on security, monitoring, preparedness, safety, adversarial robustness, (super)alignment, confidentiality, societal impact, and related topics. These problems are quite hard to get right, and I am concerned we aren't on a trajectory to get there. Over the past few months my team has been sailing against the wind. Sometimes we were struggling for compute and it was getting harder and harder to get this crucial research done.
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AI Verified Verified. A Thread Reader unroll of Jan Leike’s May 17, 2024 X thread, using the same root thread ID as the supplied URL, reproduces the quoted passage verbatim across consecutive posts: lines 52–55 contain the “I believe much more of our bandwidth...”, “These problems are quite hard...”, and “Over the past few months my team has been sailing against the wind...” sentences, and the thread is explicitly attributed to Jan Leike (@janleike). Contemporary coverage also reproduces the same wording and links Leike’s X post/thread. ([threadreaderapp.com](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1791498174659715494.html)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 11d ago
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