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Salary is a little light IMHO (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by DesertCreosote@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have 30 years experience in just hanging around and unplugging things. This is the job I was made for. It's my destiny.

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.fmhy.ml 20 points 2 years ago

Sounds like a good deal to me!

[–] iamak 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I misread it as kills witch engineer and thought it would be a lot more exciting💀

[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How much excitement are you looking for? AI taking over the world sounds like it could be interesting.

[–] iamak 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes but waiting to be told to shut down servers isn't :p

[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What if you were in a constant fight for your life and the AI covertly attempts to kill you?

[–] iamak 1 points 2 years ago

Now that would be interesting :p

[–] outdated_belated@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They had me until the mandatory kool aid provision

[–] SilentStorms@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

For 300k I'll be "excited" over whatever you tell me to be excited about

[–] Dohnakun@lemmy.fmhy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is the high salary because of the responsibility or the risk?

[–] Saneless@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] Gork@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's some nice air you have in the server room.

It would be a shame if it were replaced with Halon-134...

[–] Saneless@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was trying to read up on that a few months ago, we were talking about the deadly gas they'd disperse to extinguish things. Fires, supposedly, or life, if your luck or legs aren't as good as they should be

[–] Gork@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Yup, that's exactly what Halon does. Displaces air and the fire is put out but so are you as well.

The industry is shifting to less toxic for suppression gases like 3M™ Novec™ 1230.

[–] Million@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 years ago

Get comfortable, while I warm up the neurotoxin emitters.

[–] radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

It's to save humanity.

[–] onichama@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm sorry but Roko's Basilisk.

[–] LoreleiSankTheShip@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

I never really got the dread from that one. It just assumes so many very unlikely things.

[–] Stan@lemmywinks.com 1 points 2 years ago

I don’t always post fake job listings