How to Contact Jan Leike

Choose one narrow angle where your experience is clearly useful to Jan Leike. Avoid broad positioning; one sharp contribution beats ten generic claims.

Use this as your foundation: Jan Leike responds to concise, outcome driven outreach that respects their calendar and inner circle. The strongest entry is through Anthropic research leadership or academic collaborations and research networks, ideally via a warm introduction from AI safety researchers or academic advisors. Lead with a one page brief tied to scalable oversight and alignment research and show you understand how decisions are made in Anthropic. Offer a low lift next step like a short call, memo, or pilot, and avoid generic praise by signaling measurable upside and low operational risk.

Create one concrete proof-of-work asset before outreach. This can be a short teardown, a practical proposal, or a relevant case study.

Distribute that work where the right people actually see it: AI safety summits.

Keep the first message short and specific. Lead with context, show proof, then ask for a small next step.

A strong opener is usually a focused question: Which alignment benchmarks are most useful for oversight

If there is no response, do not spam. Improve your proof and follow up in 10-14 days with a clearer signal.

Maintain the relationship through relevant updates around AI safety, alignment research, oversight methods. Small, consistent value compounds over time.