Researcher, Recursive Self-Improvement Safety

Job summary

Responsibilities

Preparedness is hiring strong technical executors to support preparations for accelerated AI development, which may culminate in recursive self-improvement. This work relies on anticipating misalignment risks that might exist in the future, but might not exist now; so it’s especially important…

• Carefully consider the problems OpenAI might face in the future and how to prepare for them.
• Turn an open-ended objective like “prepare for future misalignment threats” into a much more concrete direction (e.g.
• Execute quickly, building scrappy prototypes, and then improving them iteratively until they become established components of our safety pipelines.
• Secure buy-in from other staff at OpenAI when necessary, and communicate your work clearly.
• Collaborate with or manage other staff as needed, since we might need to rapidly scale to tackle these problems quickly.