'You'll jump into the deep end pretty much immediately,' Altman said while announcing the vacancy. 'You'll jump into the deep end pretty much immediately,' Altman said while announcing the vacancy. 'This will be a stressful job': Sam Altman offers $555k salary to fill most daunting role in AI New head of preparedness at OpenAI will face unnerving in-tray amid fears from some experts that AI could'turn on us' Mon 29 Dec 2025 09.44 ESTLast modified on Mon 29 Dec 2025 10.10 EST The maker of ChatGPT has advertised a $555,000-a-year vacancy with a daunting job description that would cause Superman to take a sharp intake of breath. In what may be close to the impossible job, the "head of preparedness" at OpenAI will be directly responsible for defending against risks from ever more powerful AIs to human mental health, cybersecurity and biological weapons. That is before the successful candidate has to start worrying about the possibility that AIs may soon begin training themselves amid fears from some experts they could "turn against us". "This will be a stressful job, and you'll jump into the deep end pretty much immediately," said Sam Altman, the chief executive of the San Francisco-based organisation, as he launched the hunt to fill "a critical role" to "help the world".

"The computer is fallible, so it's the human who is supposed to be perfect," one former Uber test driver said. "It's kind of the reverse of what you think about computers." The fatal crash last week in Tempe, Ariz., involving an Uber autonomous vehicle is bringing new scrutiny to both the quality of Uber's technology for avoiding collision and the efficacy of its backup system of so-called safety drivers. The accident, in which a woman was struck and killed as she walked a bicycle across a road at night, is believed to be the first involving a death from a self-driving car. In much of the autonomous-vehicle testing done on public roads, there are two safety drivers: one in the driver's seat; and one in the front passenger seat who is assigned the task of logging incidents onto a computer, but, drivers say, also helps by keeping a second set of eyes on the road.