"OpenAI has filled a key safety role by hiring from a rival lab. The company has brought on Dylan Scand, a former AI safety researcher at Anthropic, as its new head of preparedness, a role that carries a salary of up to $555,000 plus equity. The role caught attention last month thanks to its eye-catching pay package amid OpenAI's rising AI safety concerns."
""Things are about to move quite fast and we will be working with extremely powerful models soon," Altman wrote. "Dylan will lead our efforts to prepare for and mitigate these severe risks. He is by far the best candidate I have met, anywhere, for this role," he added. Scand said in a post on X on Wednesday about his move that he's "deeply grateful for my time at Anthropic and the extraordinary people I worked alongside.""
OpenAI hired Dylan Scand, a former AI safety researcher at Anthropic, as head of preparedness with a salary up to $555,000 plus equity. The role requires leading technical teams, making high-stakes calls under uncertainty, and aligning competing stakeholders around safety decisions. Sam Altman said Scand will lead efforts to prepare for and mitigate severe risks as powerful models arrive soon. Scand expressed gratitude for his time at Anthropic and warned that AI advances bring both great benefits and risks of extreme, possibly irrecoverable harm. The posting drew attention for its high pay amid concerns about OpenAI's safety approach and recent departures.
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