Open AI, the company behind the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, has said it is recruiting the Head of Preparedness and is ready to pay up to $500,000 (about shs1.8bn) a year.
Few jobs in Silicon Valley come with this level of compensation. The package could comfortably cover the annual salaries of hundreds of employees in many small and medium-sized startups or non-profits in Uganda, underscoring both the premium placed on elite AI talent and the deep pockets of tech companies.
Open AI CEO Sam Altman said in a post on X the role would have a lot to do with tackling the challenges posed by AI.
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“This is a critical role at an important time; models are improving quickly and are now capable of many great things, but they are also starting to present some real challenges,” he wrote.
“The potential impact of models on mental health was something we saw a preview of in 2025; we are just now seeing models get so good at computer security they are beginning to find critical vulnerabilities.”
The eye-watering pay has attracted global media attention and highlights how far ahead technology firms are compared to other sectors when it comes to remuneration.
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Since OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT in November, paving the way for other AI companies to follow suit, many computer science graduates have struggled to find entry-level positions as employers are relying on AI to fill those positions.
This past November, the global chairman of the accountancy firm PwC, Mohamed Kande, said graduate jobs in the UK were under threat from AI.
In December, Andrew Bailey, the governor of the UK’s central bank, the Bank of England, said the widespread adoption of AI is likely to displace people from jobs in a similar way seen during the Industrial Revolution.
Mr Altman said while OpenAI had the capacity to measure growing capabilities of its models, it needs “more nuanced understanding and measurement of how those capabilities could be abused, and how we can limit those downsides both in our products and in the world, in a way that lets us all enjoy the tremendous benefits.”
He cautioned the new role would be “stressful” and that the successful candidate would “jump into the deep end pretty much immediately”.
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