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OpenAI will pay ₹3.7 crore to worry about a problem that may not exist yet. The job? Stop AI from building itself

  • Sayantani Biswas--Livemint
  • published date: 2026-05-24 02:21:44 UTC

OpenAI is hiring a safety researcher at up to   ₹3.7 crore ($445,000) to prepare for AI that can train itself. The job listing asks for someone ‘tasteful and strategic’ enough to reason about risks that do not yet exist.

OpenAI has posted a job listing for a researcher to work on one of the most consequential challenges in artificial intelligence: what happens when an AI system becomes capable of making itself smarte… [+3997 chars]