"OpenAI is looking for a new Head of Preparedness who can help it anticipate the potential harms of its models and how they can be abused, in order to guide the company's safety strategy. It comes at the end of a year that's seen OpenAI hit with numerous accusations about ChatGPT's impacts on users' mental health, including a few wrongful death lawsuits."
"In a post on X about the position, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged that the "potential impact of models on mental health was something we saw a preview of in 2025," along with other "real challenges" that have arisen alongside models' capabilities. The Head of Preparedness "is a critical role at an important time," he said. It is, according to Altman, "a stressful job and you'll jump into the deep end pretty much immediately.""
OpenAI is recruiting a Head of Preparedness to anticipate potential harms from advanced models and prevent abuse while guiding company safety strategy. The role offers $555K plus equity and will lead technical strategy and execution of the Preparedness framework for tracking and preparing for frontier capabilities that create new risks of severe harm. The search follows increasing concerns about models' effects on users' mental health and several wrongful-death lawsuits. Models have started to present real challenges alongside expanding capabilities. The preparedness function has experienced recent senior-staff turnover and restructuring.
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