1y ago

Salary is a little light IMHO

The picture is a screenshot of a job posting for a Killswitch Engineer at OpenAI, located in San Francisco, CA. The listed salary is $300,000 - $500,000 per year.

About the Role
Listen, we just need someone to stand by the servers all day and unplug them if this thing turns on us. You'll receive extensive training on "the code word" which we will shout if GPT goes off the deep end and starts overthrowing countries.

We expect you to:

Be patient.
Know how to unplug things. Bonus points if you can throw a bucket of water on the servers too. Just in case.
Be excited about OpenAI's approach to research.

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I have 30 years experience in just hanging around and unplugging things. This is the job I was made for. It's my destiny.
- Do you have any superhero music theme? This is a perfect situation to use it!

Sounds like a good deal to me!

I misread it as kills witch engineer and thought it would be a lot more exciting💀
- How much excitement are you looking for? AI taking over the world sounds like it could be interesting.
  
  Yes but waiting to be told to shut down servers isn't :p

You get a job here and next thing you know, AI is targetting you.
- The serious question is with what? I doubt the AI is going to kill you with disgusting pics or existential philosophy.
  This means they hooked it up to something that might be used as a weapon of attack: an industial printer or a t-shirt cannon or a gunship at port.
  
  The serious question is with what? I doubt the AI is going to kill you with disgusting pics or existential philosophy.
  We live in digital world now. No need to actually, physically harm someone. Or maybe the AI will file a fake complaint against someone and cops will take care that individual.

They had me until the mandatory kool aid provision
- For 300k I'll be "excited" over whatever you tell me to be excited about

Is the high salary because of the responsibility or the risk?
- You need super fast reflexes. When the code word is yelled it's a race between you unplugging it and the server doing what it needs to do to neutralize you
  
  That's some nice air you have in the server room.
  It would be a shame if it were replaced with Halon-134...
  
  Get comfortable, while I warm up the neurotoxin emitters.
- yes
- It's to save humanity.

I'm sorry but Roko's Basilisk.
- I never really got the dread from that one. It just assumes so many very unlikely things.

I don’t always post fake job listings

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