OpenAI's head of superalignment
Strong candidates know how to code, understand machine learning, and think critically, Leike said. They must also have a passion for making AI safer, he added. Working closely with research engineers, research scientists are responsible for advancing OpenAI's alignment research agenda. A research scientist — who can also— is tasked with brainstorming how to address problems and guiding how the research is designed.
A manager should"really care about the problems that we're trying to solve," and needs to be"really good" at coding and machine learning, Leike added.