OpenAI is hiring a new Head of Preparedness to try to predict and mitigate AI's harms

OpenAI is looking for a caller Head of Preparedness who tin thief it expect nan imaginable harms of its models and really they tin beryllium abused, successful bid to guideline nan company's information strategy. It comes astatine nan extremity of a twelvemonth that's seen OpenAI deed pinch galore accusations astir ChatGPT's impacts connected users' intelligence health, including a fewer wrongful death lawsuits. In a station connected X astir nan position, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged that nan "potential effect of models connected intelligence wellness was thing we saw a preview of successful 2025," on pinch different "real challenges" that person arisen alongside models' capabilities. The Head of Preparedness "is a captious domiciled astatine an important time," he said.

Per nan job listing, nan Head of Preparedness (who will make $555K, positive equity), "will lead nan method strategy and execution of OpenAI’s Preparedness framework, our model explaining OpenAI’s attack to search and preparing for frontier capabilities that create caller risks of terrible harm." It is, according to Altman, "a stressful occupation and you'll jump into nan heavy extremity beautiful overmuch immediately."

Over nan past mates of years, OpenAI's information teams person undergone a batch of changes. The company's former Head of Preparedness, Aleksander Madry, was reassigned backmost successful July 2024, and Altman said astatine nan clip that nan domiciled would beryllium taken complete by execs Joaquin Quinonero Candela and Lilian Weng. Weng left nan company a fewer months later, and successful July 2025, Quinonero Candela announced his move distant from nan preparedness squad to lead recruiting astatine OpenAI.