OpenAI Is Hiring for a Position That Sounds Horrifying

“This will be a stressful job and you’ll jump into the deep end pretty much immediately,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote on X in his announcement of the “head of preparedness” job at OpenAI on Saturday.

In exchange for $555,000 per year, according to OpenAI’s job ad, the head of preparedness is supposed to “expand, strengthen, and guide,” the existing preparedness program within OpenAI’s safety systems department. This side of OpenAI builds the safeguards that, in theory,…