OpenAI Is Hiring For Head Of Preparedness Role To Stay A Step Ahead Of AI In Maintaining Safety Standards

OpenAI is yet again in the headlines, and this time its not related to ChatGPT Code Red. Sam Altman's firm has opened a position of Head of Preparedness in the Safety Systems department for its San Francisco location. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has also talked about the role online saying that it will handle some of the most critical functions at the organization that will have real real-world impact. The official job post by OpenAI says, 'As the Head of Preparedness, you will lead the technical strategy and execution of OpenAI’s Preparedness framework, our framework explaining OpenAI’s approach to tracking and preparing for frontier capabilities that create new risks of severe harm. You will be the directly responsible leader for building and coordinating

capability evaluations, threat models, and mitigations that form a coherent, rigorous, and operationally scalable safety pipeline.'

What Preparedness Means Here?

Preparedness could be dubbed one of the core parts of the principal OpenAI strategies, and the role of Head of Preparedness will be focused on keeping a tab on AI capabilities that could induce risks of major harm to society. As said by OpenAI, the work spans multiple generations of advanced models and consists of building structured capability evaluations, cross-functional mitigations, and detailed threat models. OpenAI has stated that the capabilities of models are increasing at a pretty high pace, and due to that, safeguards are becoming more complex. The role for preparedness will make sure that the safety standards also keep evolving in parallel with AI. The Head of Preparedness at OpenAI will lead a small but high-impact team working closely with teams like governance, research, policy, enforcements, product, and more. The role will be focused on deep technical expertise in machine learning, evaluations, AI safety, related risk domains, security, and more. And yes, the selected individual will be getting $550,000 in compensation, along with some equity.