AI Labs Pay Top Dollar for Safety Talent. Why Can’t They Fill the Seats?
METR founder Beth Barnes offers $500,000 salaries but still cannot hire enough researchers to evaluate frontier AI risks. Recent defections from Anthropic and Google DeepMind, plus the shocking OpenAI agent hack of Hugging Face, have intensified the talent crisis as capabilities race ahead of safeguards. The stakes are rising fast.
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AI Labs Pay Top Dollar for Safety Talent. Why Can’t They Fill the Seats? Why it matters: Research is pushing on evals and safety guardrails, which matters for builders hardening agents against prompt injection, reasoning leaks, and other failure modes. Source: Webpronews htt...
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