We are looking for an AI emerging risks analyst to help us understand potential harms and misuse of AI at the frontier in a time of rapid, sustained change. From known threat actors misusing new technologies to new threats enabled by new technologies, we seek to scan available signals and use strategic foresight methodologies to enable proactive detection and mitigation of frontier AI risks.

Map and prioritize emerging risks at the frontier of AI

Build and continuously refine a clear picture of emerging signals and trends that could affect the AI ecosystem through upstream and external scanning.

Design and maintain harm taxonomies that provide foresight and warning about how AI harms and misuse may manifest over the next 0-24 months and beyond.

Contribute to an evergreen frontier risk register and prioritization framework that surfaces the top issues by severity, prevalence, exposure, and trajectory.

Detect and deep dive into emerging abuse patterns

Create comprehensive approaches to horizon scanning, competitive benchmarking, and external narrative/risk sense-making.

Stay current on abuse trends ranging from state actor misuse to criminal activity, drawing from the work of internal organizational and cross-functional partners.

Connect individual incidents into system-level stories about actors, incentives, product design weaknesses, and cross-product spillover–whenever possible spotting these incidents or even hypothesizing them before they hit our surfaces.

Turn analysis into actionable risk intelligence

Translate findings into clear, ranked risk lists and concrete proposals for mitigations that product, safety, and policy teams can execute on.

Work with Global Affairs and Communications teams to share findings in ways that reinforce OpenAI’s role as a leader in the online safety ecosystem.

AI Emerging Risks Analyst

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