AI Emerging Risks Analyst

📋 Description

• • The AI Emerging Risks Analyst role at OpenAI focuses on identifying and mitigating potential harms and misuse of frontier AI technologies by analyzing evolving risk landscapes and translating insights into actionable intelligence for safety and product teams.
• • Day-to-day responsibilities include mapping and prioritizing emerging AI risks, detecting abuse patterns through horizon scanning and competitive benchmarking, turning analysis into risk intelligence with mitigation proposals, building early warning metrics and dashboards, producing strategic intelligence estimates, and shaping safety readiness for new product launches.
• • The role sits within the Strategic Intelligence & Analysis (SIA) team, which provides safety intelligence for OpenAI’s products by monitoring real-world abuse, geopolitical risks, and strategic threats to ensure responsible deployment across critical sectors.
• • The analyst will develop expertise in foresight methodologies, risk framing, cross-functional collaboration, and AI safety strategy, gaining influence in how OpenAI anticipates and responds to frontier risks while contributing to global online safety efforts.