Researcher, Recursive Self-Improvement Preparedness

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The role involves preparing for future security threats related to AI by conducting research and implementing strategic measures to mitigate risks associated with recursive self-improvement.

Responsibilities:

• 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 security threats' into a much more concrete direction (e.g. 'implement monitors for data poisoning') – prioritizing the work that is most useful to start right now
• Execute quickly, building scrappy prototypes, and then improving them iteratively
• 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