AI Chat: ChatGPT, AI News, Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, Machine Learning OpenAI Offers $555K+ for New Head of Safety
Dec 29, 2025
Discover OpenAI's intriguing search for a new Head of Preparedness, a role pivotal in ensuring AI safety. Learn how AI red teams are being trained to identify vulnerabilities, outperforming human hackers. The competitive landscape pushes OpenAI to refine its preparedness framework, signaling serious accountability with a hefty $555K+ salary. Meanwhile, legal scrutiny intensifies as lawsuits emerge around the impacts of AI on mental health. This conversation dives deep into the future of AI responsibility and ethical considerations.
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Urgent Need For Nuanced Preparedness
- OpenAI is hiring a Head of Preparedness to measure and mitigate how advanced models could be abused across cybersecurity, bio, and self-improving systems.
- Sam Altman publicly pushed urgency, framing the role as crucial for understanding nuanced abuse vectors as capabilities rapidly improve.
AI Outperformed Human Red Teams
- OpenAI trained models to act like hackers and found the AI outperformed human red teams at discovering novel vulnerabilities.
- The AI proposed complex, multi-step exploits that humans hadn't thought of.
Preparedness Role Is Technical And Comprehensive
- The role will own preparedness end-to-end: building evaluations, threat models, and coordinating mitigations across product cycles.
- It emphasizes frontier-capable evaluations and technically sound safeguards aligned to threat models.