Leopold Aschenbrenner

Leopold Aschenbrenner is a German artificial intelligence researcher and investor who currently serves as the founder and CIO of Situational Awareness LP, an AI-focused investment firm based in San Francisco. He previously worked on OpenAI's Superalignment team from 2023 until his dismissal in April 2024. He is best known for his June 2024 essay series "Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead," which discusses the emergence of artificial general intelligence and associated security risks, and for his co-authored research on weak-to-strong generalization presented at the 2024 International Conference on Machine Learning.