person
Wojciech Zaremba
OpenAI co-founder
Polish ML researcher who co-founded OpenAI. Leads robotics and code generation research; signed the CAIS Statement on AI Risk.
Profile
expertise
Frontier builder
Currently or recently led training, architecture, or safety work on a frontier model. Hands on the loss curve.
OpenAI co-founder. Robotics → language teams. Direct hands-on contributor to OpenAI's frontier line.
recognition
Field-leading
Widely known inside the AI and AI-safety community. Appears repeatedly in top venues, podcasts, or governance forums. Not a household name to outsiders.
Recognised inside ML; lower mainstream profile than CEO/CTO peers.
vintage
Deep-learning rise
Came up post-AlexNet. ImageNet, AlphaGo, transformer paper. DeepMind, Google Brain, FAIR establish the modern lab template.
OpenAI co-founder 2015. NYU/Facebook AI Research before. Career is deep-learning era frontier-lab.
Hand-classified. See the board for the criteria and the full grid.
Strategy positions
Existential primacyendorses
Extinction/disempowerment risk overrides ordinary cost-benefitSignatory to the Statement on AI Risk.
“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”
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Record last updated 2026-04-24.