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OpenAI is hiring a ‘head of preparedness’ with a $550,000 salary to mitigate AI dangers that CEO Sam Altman warns will be ‘stressful’

The tech company’s search for a new safety executive comes amid growing concern over the risk of AI.

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Anthropic is all in on ‘AI safety’—and that’s helping the $183 billion startup win over big business

Founders Daniela and Dario Amodei have made Anthropic and its Claude models the AI many companies prefer over rivals OpenAI and ChatGPT.

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