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Sam Altman Offers $555K Salary To Fill Most Daunting Role In AI

  • BeauHD--Slashdot.org
  • published date: 2025-12-29 23:20:00 UTC

OpenAI is offering a $555,000 salary (plus equity) to recruit a new "head of preparedness," a high-pressure role tasked with anticipating and mitigating extreme AI risks. "This will be a stressful job, and you'll jump into the deep end pretty much immediately…

In what may be close to the impossible job, the "head of preparedness" at OpenAI will be directly responsible for defending against risks from ever more powerful AIs to human mental health, cybersecu… [+1098 chars]