AI evaluator: The most important AI job in history? How developers might fill the proposed new job
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed that frontier AI companies provide embedded third-party evaluators to verify safety practices and report incidents across models and training pipelines, and multiple other major AI leaders endorsed the idea. Salaries for METR’s evaluator role top out at about $687,000. As a result, job listings and similar roles at companies like METR and Mercor position “employee-like” access evaluators as a growing path for developers to perform independent oversight.
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The pace of frontier AI model development spurred Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to publish an essay last weekend, calling for The post AI evaluator: The most important AI job in history? How developers might fill the proposed new job appeared first on The New Stack.