Most needed: human skills
|SAN FRANCISCO |3 min read
A mock job advertisement that has done the rounds recently calls for a “killswitch engineer” for OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT. The description requires the successful applicant to stand by servers all day and unplug them “if this thing turns on us”. Useful skills include the ability to “throw a bucket of water on the servers, too. Just in case.”
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This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Job apocalypse? Humbug!”
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