Google’s artificial intelligence research laboratory, DeepMind, is recruiting leading nuclear scientists to investigate whether its advanced AI systems help people develop world-ending weapons.
The AI giant’s recruitment drive seeks specialists capable of evaluating risks involving fission, fusion, and thermonuclear weapons proliferation.
The company is offering salaries of up to $252,000, plus a 15 percent bonus.
The listing puts nuclear weapons expertise inside one of the world’s most powerful AI research operations as the industry races to build increasingly capable models.
According to Data Center Dynamics, DeepMind is hiring “highly qualified physicists and nuclear engineers” for its Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and high-yield Explosives team within its Responsible Development and Innovation operation.
