OpenAI is making an appointment head of preparationOr, in other words, someone whose primary job is to think about all the ways AI can go terribly, terribly wrong, one in post on xSam Altman announced the position, acknowledging that the rapid improvement of AI models presents “some real challenges”. The post specifically addresses the potential impact on people’s mental health and the dangers of AI-powered cybersecurity weapons.
job listing States that the person performing the role will be responsible for:
“Monitoring and preparing for frontier capabilities that create new risks of serious harm. You will be the leader directly responsible for building and coordinating capability assessments, threat models, and mitigations that create a consistent, hardened, and operationally scalable security pipeline.”
Altman also says that, in the future, this person will be responsible for executing the company’s “readiness framework,” securing AI models for the release of “biological capabilities,” and even setting guardrails for self-improving systems. He also says it will be a “stressful job”, which seems like an understatement.
