OpenAI has posted a job listing offering nearly half a million annually for a safety researcher tasked with considering risks that do not exist yet. First reported by Business Insider, the role is within the company's Preparedness team and focuses on a scenario the AI industry has debated for years but never staffed for: machines that can design, train, and improve better versions of themselves.
The compensation band runs from $295,000 to $445,000 (£233,000 to £352,000). That is senior machine-learning engineer money at a frontier lab. It signals how seriously OpenAI is treating the hire.
