Situational AwarenessFounder & Chief Investment Officer
Sep 2024 — Present
Leopold Aschenbrenner founded Situational Awareness, an investment firm focused on how artificial intelligence will reshape technology, energy, and the wider economy. He previously researched superalignment at OpenAI and worked on the FTX Future Fund team.
Leopold Aschenbrenner founded Situational Awareness, an investment firm focused on how artificial intelligence will reshape technology, energy, and the wider economy. He previously researched superalignment at OpenAI and worked on the FTX Future Fund team.
Sep 2024 — Present
2023 — 2024
2022 — 2022
Leopold's essay series on AI scaling, the intelligence explosion, compute infrastructure, national security, and superalignment.

OpenAI's first Superalignment paper, co-authored by Leopold, studies whether weaker models can supervise stronger ones.