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The man behind ChatGPT, Sam Altman, is offering a whopping $555,000 salary to anyone who can do a particular and terrifying job.
Tech firm OpenAI is hiring what has been described as a nearly impossible job but it comes with a healthy pay package if you think you’re up to the task.
The AI company is looking for someone to become the ‘head of preparedness’, where they will be responsible for defending against risks.
This includes things like cybersecurity, mental health, and any risks from ever-advancing AI bots.
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Speaking about the role, Altman said: “This will be a stressful job, and you’ll jump into the deep end pretty much immediately.”
As part of the job, the ‘head of preparedness’ will be in charge of ‘tracking and preparing for frontier capabilities that create new risks of severe harm’.
We are hiring a Head of Preparedness. This is a critical role at an important time; models are improving quickly and are now capable of many great things, but they are also starting to present some real challenges. The potential impact of models on mental health was something we…
— Sam Altman (@sama) December 27, 2025
Altman took to social media to share information about the job post. On X, formerly Twitter, he wrote: “We have a strong foundation of measuring growing capabilities, but we are entering a world where we need more nuanced understanding and measurement of how those capabilities could be abused, and how we can limit those downsides both in our products and in the world, in a way that lets us all enjoy the tremendous benefits. These questions are hard and there is little precedent.”
This comes after the boss of Microsoft AI issued a major warning over ‘uncontrollable’ artificial intelligence.
The CEO of the tech giant has said that AI technology could get out of control if proper regulation isn’t put into place.
Mustafa Suleyman, who is the CEO of Microsoft AI, appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Today where he said that fears over the future of AI are ‘health and necessary’.
He continued: “I honestly think that if you’re not a little bit afraid at this moment then you’re not paying attention.”
The mogul also said that regulations need to be put into place as the technology continues to develop, suggesting that the next five years will see ‘outrageously exponential’ advances in AI.
Suleyman went on to say: “There are plenty of people in the industry today who see a world – in fact desire a world – in which machines get so much more intelligent than humans… that they could exceed human performance on all tasks.
“A system like that would almost certainly not be controllable. We have to declare our belief in a humanist super intelligence, one that is always aligned to human interests”
He added: “If we can’t control it, it isn’t going to be on our side. It’s going to overwhelm us”.
