OpenAI
30 open roles (AI safety, policy & security)
description
OpenAI is an AI research and product company that has recently released software using deep learning, including DALL-E and ChatGPT. They have people working across Research, Engineering, Product and Operations and more. Teams working on safety and governance include their Preparedness, Superalignment, Safety Systems, Governance, and Security teams.
In our career review on working at a leading AI lab you can find some discussion on various considerations for and against this option.
Open roles (AI safety, policy & security )We're only confident in recommending OpenAI roles working on safety, governance, policy and security issues.
For some discussion of working on AI capabilities to advance AI safety work see some anonymous advice we've collected from experts on this topic.
You can find all of OpenAI's roles on their careers page.
We're only confident in recommending OpenAI roles working on safety, governance, policy and security issues.
For some discussion of working on AI capabilities to advance AI safety work see some anonymous advice we've collected from experts on this topic.
You can find all of OpenAI's roles on their careers page.
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80,000 Hours links
Preventing an AI-related catastrophe
Problem profile
Working at a leading AI lab
Career review
AI safety technical research
Career review
Anonymous advice on if you should work on AI capabilities to help reduce AI risk
Article
Interview with Richard Ngo, a researcher at OpenAI
Podcast
Interview with Jan Leike, Head of Alignment at OpenAI, on their Superalignment program
Podcast
External content
Planning for AGI and beyond
Blog post
Introducing Open AI's Superalignment team
Team
OpenAI's Preparedness team and outline of their preparedness frameworkfor frontier AI risks
Team
OpenAI's write up of its approach to alignment research
Approach
ChatGPT, a large language model released by OpenAI in November 2022
Product
DALL-E, an AI system that creates realistic images and art from a description in natural language
Product