You can apply for OpenAI’s new research engineer ($245,000—$450,000 USD), research scientist $245,000—$450,000 USD, and research manager positions for its new Superalignment team.
According to OpenAI, the new team is need to maintain control over AI: “We need scientific and technical breakthroughs to steer and control AI systems much smarter than us. To solve this problem within four years, we’re starting a new team, co-led by Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, and dedicating 20% of the compute we’ve secured to date to this effort. We’re looking for excellent ML researchers and engineers to join us.”
OpenAI identified 3 responsibilities of the Superalignment team:
- To provide a training signal on tasks that are difficult for humans to evaluate, we can leverage AI systems to assist evaluation of other AI systems (scalable oversight). In addition, we want to understand and control how our models generalize our oversight to tasks we can’t supervise (generalization).
- To validate the alignment of our systems, we automate search for problematic behavior (robustness) and problematic internals (automated interpretability).
- Finally, we can test our entire pipeline by deliberately training misaligned models, and confirming that our techniques detect the worst kinds of misalignments (adversarial testing).