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Threat Modeler, Preparedness

OpenAI · San Francisco

$325k/yrSafety SystemsSafety SystemsPosted 8 months ago
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ABOUT THE TEAM Preparedness is a critical Safety Research team at OpenAI, which is focused on mitigating AI threats https://openai.com/index/updating-our-preparedness-framework/ that could scale to an extreme level of severity. Our work involves: - Tracking and prediction. Monitoring https://openai.com/index/how-we-monitor-internal-coding-agents-misalignment/ and predicting the evolving misalignment propensities and capabilities of frontier AI systems. - Mitigation. Keeping misuse safeguards, alignment tools, and security measures on track to adequately address extreme threats that might arise in the future. - Coordination. Setting mitigation targets by maintaining OpenAI’s preparedness framework, and partnering with other staff to achieve these targets. This is urgent, fast-paced work that has far-reaching implications for the company and for society. ABOUT THE ROLE As a threat modeler, you will own OpenAI’s holistic approach to identifying, modeling, and forecasting frontier risks from frontier AI systems. This role ensures that our evaluation frameworks, safeguards, and taxonomies are robust, high-coverage, and forward-looking. You will help the company answer the “why” behind our most stringent risk-prevention efforts, shaping the rationale for prioritizing and mitigating risks across domains. You will serve as a central node connecting technical, governance, and policy perspectives on prioritization, focus and rationale on our approach to frontier risks from AI. IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL: - Develop and maintain comprehensive threat models across all misuse areas (bio, cyber, attack planning, etc.). - Develop plausible and convincing threat models across loss of control, self-improvement, and other possible alignment risks from frontier AI systems - Forecast risks by combining technical foresight, adversarial simulation, and emerging trends. - Pair closely with technical partners on capability evaluations to ensure these map to and cover the gambit of severe risks

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ModelingRisk AnalysisThreat Modeling

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first - ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

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